Saturday Final Nationals: ESPN Achieves Ratings Milestones with ACC and Pac-12 Championship Games

ESPN was Saturday prime time’s top network in adults 18-49 (approx. 0.9 rating), adults 18-34 (approx. 0.9 rating), and adults 25-54 (approx. 1.0 rating), thanks to men’s college basketball’s “ACC Championship Game: Duke vs. Notre Dame”. The game averaged a total live audience (TV + streaming) of 3.695 million viewers, which is the most-watched ACC Tournament game in 19 years and, overall, the second most-watched ACC Tournament game ever on-record (data since 1997). The Blue Devils-Fighting Irish audience was up 29 percent from the year-ago’s ACC Championship game (Virginia and North Carolina), held during the same television window.

The three-game ACC Tournament conclusion averaged a total live audience of 2.874 million viewers, the most-viewed ACC Semifinals/Championship in ACC Tournament history and up 64 percent from the conference’s three-game finale last year.

The Pac-12 Championship game between Arizona and Oregon (March 11 at 11 p.m.) averaged a total live audience of 2,148,000 viewers, ESPN’s most-viewed Pac-12 Champ among the three it has aired (2013 and 2015).

(Source: ESPN)

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* AFF = Number of affiliates (stations) airing the program
* CVG = percent of coverage in U.S.
	Saturday, March 11, 2017
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.4/3	2322	0.6/3	0.7/3	0.8/3
8:00	NBA Countdown (s)	250	93	1.2/2	1809	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.5/2
8:29	NBA Saturday Primetime Golden State @ San Antonio	250	93	1.5/3	2450	0.6/4	0.7/3	0.8/3
10:54	NBA Saturday Primetime Post Game			1.1/2	1696	0.4/2	0.5/2	0.5/2
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			2.1/4	3546	0.2/1	0.5/2	0.6/2
8:12	Ransom	255	93	1.7/3	2724	0.2/1	0.4/2	0.5/2
9:12	Crimetime Saturday NCIS: Los Angeles (r)	255	93	2.2/4	3473	0.2/1	0.5/2	0.7/2
10:12	48 Hours (thru 11:12)	253	92	3.0/6	4440	0.3/2	0.7/3	1.0/3
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.5/3	2378	0.3/2	0.5/2	0.6/2
8:00	The Voice (rs)	242	93	1.9/4	2952	0.4/2	0.5/2	0.7/2
9:00	Taken (rs)	244	93	1.3/2	1941	0.3/1	0.3/1	0.5/1
10:00	Saturday Night Live (r)	244	92	1.4/3	2242	0.3/2	0.6/2	0.7/3
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-10	Network Average			0.5/1	730		0.2/1	0.2/1
7:46	Big East Tournament Post Game (s)	255	93	0.5/1	829	0.1/1	0.2/1	0.3/1
8:16	24: Legacy (r)	255	93	0.4/1	643	0.1/1	0.2/1	0.2/1
9:00	APB (r)	255	93	0.5/1	784	0.1/1	0.2/1	0.2/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.5/1	954		0.3/1
7:00	Crónicas de Sábado			0.6/1	1013		0.3/1
8:00	La Piloto (s)			0.5/1	873		0.3/1
9:00	La Piloto (s)			0.5/1	945		0.3/1
10:00	La Piloto (s)			0.5/1	1044		0.4/2
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.5/1	872		0.3/1
6:02	Cine El Profe (1971)			0.5/1	901		0.3/1
8:32	Cine La Pasión de Cristo (2004) (thru 11:02)			0.4/1	805		0.3/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average (preliminary)			0.4/1	715	0.2/1	0.3/1
8:00	Cine Over the Hedge (206) (preliminary)			0.4/1	800	0.2/1	0.3/1
8:30	Cine Lord of War (2005) (preliminary)			0.4/1	758	0.2/1	0.3/1
9:00	Cine Lord of War (2005) (preliminary)			0.4/1	713	0.2/1	0.3/1
10:00	Cine Lord of War (2005) (preliminary)			0.3/1	655	0.2/1	0.3/1

Note: All of this date’s Telemundo data are based on preliminary figures.

Sub-Demo Breakdowns – Saturday 3/11/17

For the entire week of March 6-12, 2017 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is up +3 percent in viewership (0.880 million vs. 0.851 million) and up +1 percent among Adults 18-49 (545,000 vs. 538,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down -22 percent in total viewership (0.880 million vs. 1.124 million) and down -17 percent among Adults 18-49 (545,000 vs. 660,000) from the same week one year ago (March 14-20, 2016). (https://programmingins.wpengine.com/?p=15637)

	PROGRAM	HH	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
8:00	Dragon Ball Super	0.51	865	0.28	360
8:30	American Dad (r)	0.47	721	0.27	346
9:00	Rick & Morty (r)	0.50	760	0.31	403
9:30	Rick & Morty (r)	0.57	873	0.35	447
10:00	Family Guy (r)	0.79	1264	0.56	716
10:30	Family Guy (r)	0.91	1468	0.66	849

TOONAMI – SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2017

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
11:00	Samurai Jack	1552	0.76	973
11:30	Dragon Ball Super	1251	0.57	733
12:00a	Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters	903	0.42	542
12:30a	JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure	672	0.32	405
1:00a	Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn	569	0.26	339
1:30a	Hunter X Hunter	569	0.26	337
3:00a	Naruto: Shippuden	674	0.30	379
3:30a	One Piece	657	0.28	364
4:00a	Ghost in the Shell (r)	602	0.26	334

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
4:30a	American Dad (r)	617	0.28	360
5:00a	King of the Hill (r)	657	0.30	387
5:30a	King of the Hill (r)	598	0.26	339

Cable Rankings – Saturday 3/11/17

What follows are the top 200 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Saturday, March 11:

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research