Saturday Final Nationals: Warriors-Thunder Becomes TNT’s Top Conference Final Game 6 To-Date

Saturday belonged to TNT with the Golden State Warriors’ 108-101 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6 of the “2016 NBA Western Conference Finals”. Averaging a 6.2 household rating and 10.8 million viewers, Warriors-Thunder on May 28 was the highest-rated, most-watched Game 6 of an NBA Conference Final in the network’s history, to-date.

The Warriors/Thunder telecast – peaking with an average of 14.6 million total viewers and an 8.3 U.S. household rating from 11:30-11:45 p.m. ET – won the night across all of television (cable and broadcast).

Additionally, TNT’s “Inside the NBA” garnered a 4.1 household rating – its highest overnight rating of the season – to rank as television’s second-best program of the night, according to overnight delivery. Throughout the NBA Conference Finals, “Inside the NBA” continues to out-deliver all other late night talk show programming (cable and broadcast) in total viewers and all key adult and male demos.

Saturday night’s Thunder/Warriors telecast is up 33 percent in total viewers and 27 percent in U.S. household rating when compared with 2014, the last time TNT televised the Western Conference Finals (Oklahoma City vs. San Antonio). This year’s coverage of WCF Game 6 also generated double-digit audience growth across all key demos.

Top local markets for Saturday’s Thunder/Warriors telecast — Oklahoma City (26.1), San Francisco (22.2), Cleveland (18.0), Tulsa (13.6) and San Antonio (12.5)

Through six games, the WCF on TNT is averaging nine million viewers and a 5.4 U.S. household rating, up 33 percent and 29 percent respectively, when compared with the network’s WCF coverage in 2014.

(Source: Turner)

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	Saturday, May 28, 2016
	PROGRAM	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average	1.2/3	1842	0.1/1	0.3/1	0.4/1
8:00	500 Questions (s)	1.7/4	2679	0.2/1	0.3/2	0.5/2
9:00	Miniseries: Madoff Part 1 (r)	1.0/2	1423	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	2.5/5	3687	0.3/2	0.5/2	0.8/3
8:00	Crimetime Saturday: NCIS: Los Angeles (r)	1.8/4	2737	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.5/2
9:00	48 Hours (r)	2.5/5	3742	0.3/2	0.5/2	0.8/3
10:00	48 Hours (r)	3.1/6	4580	0.4/2	0.6/3	1.0/4
	PROGRAM	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average	1.2/3	2001	0.3/2	0.5/2	0.6/2
8:00	Movie: King Kong (2005)	1.2/3	2001	0.3/2	0.5/2	0.6/2
	PROGRAM	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average	1.5/3	2257	0.4/3	0.5/3	0.7/3
7:12	MLB Baseball Los Angeles Dodgers @ New York Mets (s) (thru 10:29)	1.4/3	2257	0.4/3	0.5/3	0.6/3
	PROGRAM	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average	0.6/1	1025		0.4/2
5:22	Fútbol: Partido Amistoso Mexico vs. Paraguay (s)	0.7/2	1301		0.6/3
7:39	Noticiero Univisión: Fin de Semana	0.4/1	714		0.3/1
8:09	La Rosa de Guadalupe	0.5/1	925		0.4/2
9:09	Sal y Pimienta	0.6/1	1017		0.3/1
10:00	Cronicas de Sabado	0.7/1	1171		0.4/1
	PROGRAM	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average	0.3/1	458		0.2/1
5:00	Cine The A-Team (2010)	0.2/1	446		0.1/1
7:30	Fútbol: Central (s)	0.2/1	471		0.2/1
7:51	Fútbol: Partido Amistoso USA vs. Bolivia (s)	0.3/1	519		0.2/1
10:02	Cine 5 Días de Guerra (2011) (thru 12:02am)	0.2/0	356		0.1/1

Sub-Demo Breakdowns – Saturday 5/28/16

For the entire week of May 23-29, 2016 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is down -2 percent in total viewership (1.011 million vs. 1.036 million) and flat among Adults 18-49 (601,000 vs. 601,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down -5 percent in total viewership (1.011 million vs. 1.064 million) and down -3 percent among Adults 18-49 (601,000 vs. 617,000) from the same week one year ago (May 25-31, 2015). (https://programmingins.wpengine.com/?p=8545)

	PROGRAM	HH	Viewers (000)	A18-49 rating
8:00	Dragon Ball Z Kai (r)	0.44	753	0.25
8:30	King of the Hill (r)	0.42	612	0.22
9:00	King of the Hill (r)	0.53	781	0.33
9:30	The Cleveland Show (r)	0.59	883	0.37
10:00	The Cleveland Show (r)	0.76	1155	0.49
10:30	American Dad (r)	0.85	1351	0.56
11:00	Family Guy (r)		1605	0.68
11:30	Family Guy (r)		1702	0.73

TOONAMI – SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2016

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
12:00a	Samurai Champloo (r)	1050	0.58	587
12:30a	Samurai Champloo (r)	840	0.37	467
1:00a	Samurai Champloo (r)	735	0.31	395
1:30a	Samurai Champloo (r)	716	0.29	365
2:00a	Samurai Champloo (r)	654	0.28	355
2:30a	Samurai Champloo (r)	592	0.24	310
3:00a	Samurai Champloo (r)	606	0.26	324

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating
3:30a	The Cleveland Show (r)	649	0.29
4:00a	The Cleveland Show (r)	753	0.38
4:30a	American Dad (r)	834	0.45
5:00a	King of the Hill (r)	748	0.39
5:30a	King of the Hill (r)	735	0.39

Cable Rankings – Saturday 05/28/16

What follows are the top 100 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Saturday, May 28:

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research