Saturday Final Nationals: ‘Not The White House Correspondents Dinner’ on TBS Tops Real Dinner on CNN and MSNBC Among Adults 18-49

Saturday night leadership was split between CBS (in total viewers; 3.69 million) and, with Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals: Pittsburgh at Washington in the “2017 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs,” NBC (in all key adult demos).

Although Samantha Bee’s TBS special “Full Frontal: Not the White House Correspondents Dinner” (1.33 million viewers) could not outdraw the real White House Correspondents Dinner on CNN (1.45 million from 9-11 p.m. ET) and MSNBC (692,000 from 9-11 p.m. ET) combined (2.14 million) in total viewers, the TBS event easily bested its real counterpart on the two cable news networks combined among adults 18-49 by 38 percent (532,000 vs. 387,000).

As for the real White House Correspondents Dinner which Donald Trump became the first U.S. President to not attend the event in 36 years, the viewership for CNN and MSNBC combined were down 29 percent from the year-ago event (3 million on Apr. 30, 2016) when it featured President Obama and host Larry Wilmore. (Unlike this year, the 2016 dinner had also aired on Fox News Channel).

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* AFF = Number of affiliates (stations) airing the program
* CVG = percent of coverage in U.S.
	Saturday, April 29, 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	2081	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.5/2
8:00	Movie Dreamgirls (2006)	250	92	1.4/3	2081	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.5/2
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			2.5/5	3691	0.3/2	0.6/2	0.8/3
8:00	Training Day	254	93	1.7/4	2629	0.2/1	0.3/2	0.5/2
9:00	48 Hours (s)	253	93	2.6/5	3941	0.3/2	0.6/3	0.9/3
10:00	48 Hours	253	93	3.1/6	4504	0.4/2	0.7/3	1.1/4
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.5/3	2480		0.9/4	1.1/4
8:00	NHL Playoffs Pre-Game (s)	215	92	1.3/3	2126	0.5/4	0.6/3	0.8/3
8:18	NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Eastern Semifinals Game 2: Pittsburgh @ Washington (s) (thru 11:12)	243	93	1.5/3	2556	0.8/5	1.0/4	1.1/4
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-10	Network Average			0.5/1	890		0.3/1	0.3/1
8:00	Monster Energy Supercross Meadowlands (s)			0.4/1	650		0.2/1	0.3/1
8:13	MasterChef Junior (r)	256	93	0.5/1	815	0.2/1	0.2/1	0.3/1
9:00	MasterChef Junior (rs)	253	93	0.6/1	960	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.3/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.6/1	1439		0.5/2
7:00	Crónicas de Sábado			0.6/1	972	0.2/1	0.3/2	0.4/2
8:00	Liga MX León vs. Guadalajara			0.5/1	1088	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.5/2
10:01	Liga MX Atlas vs. America (thru 12:09 a.m.)			0.7/1	1271	0.5/3	0.6/3	0.6/2
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.4/1	791		0.3/1
6:00	Cine Brusco Despertar (2012)			0.2/1	364	0.1/1	0.1/1	0.2/1
8:00	Cine ¡A Volar Joven! (1947)			0.5/1	792	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.3/1
10:05	Cine Los Tres Chiflados (2012) (thru 12:00 a.m.)			0.4/1	703	0.2/2	0.3/1	0.3/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average (preliminary)			0.3/1	633	0.2/1	0.2/1
8:00	Cine Transporter 3 (2008) (preliminary)			0.4/1	789	0.2/1	0.3/1
9:00	Guerra de Idolos (s) (preliminary)			0.3/1	601	0.2/1	0.2/1
10:00	Guerra de Idolos (s) (preliminary)			0.3/1	508	0.2/1	0.2/1
10:30	Cine Killing Jesus (2015) (preliminary)			0.4/1	812	0.2/1	0.3/1

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

Sub-Demo Breakdowns – Saturday 4/29/17

For the entire week of April 24-30, 2017 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is down -1 percent in viewership (0.809 million vs. 0.816 million) and down -2 percent among Adults 18-49 (495,000 vs. 506,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down -20 percent in total viewership (0.809 million vs. 1.010 million) from the same week one year ago (April 25-May 1, 2016). (https://programmingins.wpengine.com/?p=16719)

	PROGRAM	HH	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
8:00	Dragon Ball Super	0.55	914	0.36	468
8:30	Bob’s Burgers (r)	0.49	787	0.29	377
9:00	Rick & Morty (r)	0.50	858	0.38	385
9:30	Rick & Morty (r)	0.57	934	0.42	542
10:00	Family Guy (r)	0.77	1207	0.54	691
10:30	Family Guy (r)	0.90	1395	0.65	834

TOONAMI – SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2017

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
11:00	Samurai Jack	1302	0.64	824
11:30	Dragon Ball Super (r)	977	0.47	603
12:00a	Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters	996	0.48	619
12:30a	Attack on Titan	808	0.38	481
1:00a	Tokyo Ghoul	719	0.34	433
1:30a	Hunter X Hunter	656	0.30	382
2:00a	Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn	575	0.26	338
2:30a	Naruto: Shippuden	560	0.27	341
3:00a	Ghost in the Shell (r)	532	0.27	341

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
3:30a	Bob’s Burgers (r)	547	0.29	376
4:00a	Rick & Morty (r)	551	0.30	390
4:30a	Rick & Morty (r)	596	0.32	415
5:00a	King of the Hill (r)	685	0.34	436
5:30a	King of the Hill (r)	685	0.35	446

Cable Rankings – Saturday 4/29/17

What follows are the top 200 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Saturday, April 29:

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research