Saturday Final Nationals: Adrien Broner-Mikey Garcia Deliver Most-Watched Live Showtime Boxing Match in 30 Months

It was another scarcely-sampled summer Saturday night on television overall, with NBC on top in total viewers (2.77 million). A&E continues to benefit from “Live PD” — the cable network led all of television among adults 18-49 (approx. 0.52 rating), adults 18-34 (approx. 0.35 rating), and adults 25-54 (approx. 0.72 rating) from 8-11 p.m.

The boxing bout of Adrien Broner’s victory over Mikey Garcia in a 12-round, unanimous-decision as part of “Showtime Championship Boxing” averaged 881,000 viewers and 937,000 viewers, marking Showtime’s top audience for a live boxing match since Deontay Wilder defeated Bermane Stiverne to win the WBC heavyweight championship on Jan. 17, 2015 (average of 1.24 million viewers, peaked at 1.34 million). Broner surpassed the previous top mark since Wilder-Stiverne of 779,000 viewers (peak of 859,000) set by another Broner bout — his Feb. 18 split-decision win over Adrian Granados.

(Source: Boxing Scene)

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* AFF = Number of affiliates (stations) airing the program
* CVG = percent of coverage in U.S.
	Saturday, July 29, 2017
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.1/2	1700	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.3/2
8:00	America’s Funniest Home Videos (r)	261	93	1.5/3	2372	0.2/2	0.3/2	0.5/2
9:00	In An Instant (r)	258	93	1.3/3	1845	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/2
10:00	Still Star-Crossed	259	93	0.6/1	883	0.1/1	0.2/1	0.2/1
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.6/4	2364	0.2/1	0.3/2	0.5/2
8:00	Doubt	253	92	1.2/3	1706	0.2/1	0.2/1	0.3/1
9:00	48 Hours (r)	253	92	1.2/3	1804	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/2
10:00	48 Hours (r)	253	92	2.5/5	3582	0.3/2	0.5/2	0.8/3
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.9/4	2769	0.2/2	0.4/2	0.7/3
8:00	Dateline Mystery	245	92	2.1/5	3118	0.3/2	0.5/3	0.7/3
10:00	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (rs)	245	92	1.4/3	2071	0.2/1	0.4/2	0.5/2
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-10	Network Average			0.4/1	661	0.1/1	0.2/1	0.2/1
8:00	The F Word with Gordon Ramsay (r)	255	93	0.4/1	519	0.1/1	0.2/1	0.2/1
9:00	Love Connection (r)	255	93	0.5/1	803	0.1/1	0.2/1	0.3/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.4/1	825		0.4/2
7:00	Crónicas de Sábado			0.5/1	855		0.3/2
8:00	Liga MX Pachuca vs. América			0.5/1	913		0.4/2
10:03	Liga MX Club Necaxa vs. Club Tijuana (s) (thru 12:03 a.m.)			0.3/1	584		0.2/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.3/1	506		0.2/1
7:00	Cine Un Día con el Diablo (1945)			0.3/1	487		0.2/1
9:00	Cine The Shepherd (2007)			0.3/1	477		0.2/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average (preliminary)			0.4/1	726	0.2/1	0.3/1
8:00	Cine How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) (preliminary)			0.4/1	665	0.2/1	0.2/1
8:30	Cine The Bourne Legacy (2012) (preliminary)			0.3/1	626	0.2/2	0.2/1
9:00	Cine The Bourne Legacy (2012) (preliminary)			0.4/1	773	0.2/2	0.3/1
10:00	Cine The Bourne Legacy (2012) (preliminary)			0.4/1	760	0.2/1	0.3/1

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

Sub-Demo Breakdowns – Saturday 7/29/17

For the entire week of July 24-30, 2017 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is down -1 percent in viewership (0.789 million vs. 0.799 million) and even among Adults 18-49 (477,000 vs. 477,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down -26 percent in viewership (0.789 million vs. 1.073 million) and down -21 percent among Adults 18-49 (477,000 vs. 605,000) from the same week one year ago (July 25-31, 2016). (https://programmingins.wpengine.com/?p=18413)

	PROGRAM	HH	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
8:00	Dragon Ball Super (r)	0.38	705	0.24	306
8:30	Dragon Ball Super	0.40	673	0.28	353
9:00	Rick & Morty (r)	0.39	622	0.26	338
9:30	Rick & Morty (r)	0.41	646	0.29	368
10:00	Family Guy (r)	0.48	731	0.33	419
10:30	Family Guy (r)	0.58	941	0.42	537

TOONAMI – SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2017

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
11:00	Dragon Ball Super	801	0.39	505
11:30	Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters	721	0.33	423
12:00a	Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (p)	638	0.28	358
12:30a	Tokyo Ghoul	598	0.25	320
1:00a	Hunter X Hunter	584	0.26	328
1:30a	Lupin the 3rd: Part 4	475	0.21	268
2:00a	Naruto: Shippuden	461	0.20	260
2:30a	Ghost in the Shell (r)	416	0.19	247
3:00a	Attack on Titan (r)	369	0.16	210
3:30a	Samurai Jack (r)	386	0.17	215

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
4:00a	Rick & Morty (r)	441	0.20	254
4:30a	Rick & Morty (r)	455	0.21	268
5:00a	King of the Hill (r)	453	0.20	257
5:30a	King of the Hill (r)	462	0.20	257

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research

Cable Rankings – Saturday 7/29/17
What follows are the top 100 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Saturday, July 29:

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research