Saturday Final Nationals: White House Correspondents Dinner on Cable News Networks Nearly Doubles its Viewership Year-to-Year

CBS was tops on Saturday night in total viewers (4.79 million). TNT, with coverage of Game 1 of the 2016 Western Conference Semifinal between the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder, won among all key demos: approximately, a 1.3 rating in each adults 18-49, adults 18-34 and adults 25-54.

President Obama’s final White House Correspondents Dinner that featured Comedy Central’s Larry Wilmore as guest emcee drew 4.9 million viewers on the three cable news networks: CNN (3.019 million), Fox News (1.143 million), and MSNBC (737,000). This marked an 88 percent increase from the previous year’s White House dinner on Apr. 25, 2015 with SNL’s Cecily Strong as emcee (2.6 million).

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	Saturday, April 30, 2016
	PROGRAM	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average	1.3/2	1851	0.2/1	0.4/2	0.6/2
9:00	Marvel’s Captain America: 75 Heroic Years (r)	0.9/2	1390	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/1
10:00	20/20 Saturday	1.6/3	2313	0.3/2	0.5/2	0.7/2
	PROGRAM	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average	3.2/6	4792	0.3/2	0.6/2	0.9/3
8:00	Crimetime Saturday: NCIS (r)	2.8/6	4430	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.7/2
9:00	Crimetime Saturday: NCIS: New Orleans (r)	3.2/6	4789	0.3/2	0.6/2	0.8/3
10:00	48 Hours	3.5/7	5156	0.4/2	0.8/3	1.1/4
	PROGRAM	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average	1.4/3	2422	0.7/4	0.9/4	1.0/3
8:00	NHL Pre-Game (s)	1.2/3	2096	0.6/3	0.6/3	0.7/3
8:22	NHL Eastern Conference Quarterfinal Game 2 Pittsburgh Penguins @ Washington Capitals (thru 10:59) (s)	1.4/3	2537	0.8/4	0.9/4	1.0/3
	PROGRAM	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average	1.1/2	1619	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.5/2
8:00	Premier Boxing Champions Andre Berto vs. Victor Ortiz (welterweights) (thru 10:19)	1.1/2	1619	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.5/2
	PROGRAM	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average	0.6/1	951		0.3/1
5:55	Fútbol Mexicano: América vs. Monterrey (s) (thru 7:54)	0.6/1	1041		0.5/3
8:00	Diversion a Toda Madre Eugenio Derbez (s)	0.5/1	815		0.4/1
9:00	Sal y Pimienta (thru 11:00)	0.6/2	1018		0.3/1
	PROGRAM	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average	0.4/1	733		0.2/1
7:00	Cine Gran Hotel	0.4/1	707		0.2/1
9:00	Cine La Sombra (thru 11:00)	0.4/1	698		0.2/1

Sub-Demo Breakdowns – Saturday 4/30/16

For the entire week of April 25-May 1, 2016 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is down -8 percent in total viewership (1.010 million vs. 1.094 million) from one week earlier; the network is also down -5 percent in total viewership (1.010 million vs. 1.062 million) from the same week one year ago (April 27-May 3, 2015). (https://programmingins.wpengine.com/?p=7773)

	PROGRAM	HH	Viewers (000)	A18-49 rating
8:00	Dragon Ball Z Kai (r)	0.45	778	0.25
8:30	King of the Hill (r)	0.39	620	0.20
9:00	King of the Hill (r)	0.49	782	0.30
9:30	The Cleveland Show (r)	0.58	948	0.41
10:00	The Cleveland Show (r)	0.70	1188	0.51
10:30	American Dad (r)	0.86	1397	0.64
11:00	Family Guy (r)		1867	0.86
11:30	Family Guy (r)		1865	0.87

TOONAMI – SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2016

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
12:00a	Dragon Ball Z Kai	1416	0.64	815
12:30a	Dimension W	1203	0.54	691
1:00a	Hunter X Hunter	1056	0.47	591
1:30a	Samurai Champloo	1005	0.44	557
2:00a	Naruto: Shippuden	954	0.42	527
2:30a	One Piece	779	0.35	443
3:00a	Parasyte: The Maxim (r)	678	0.32	409

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating
3:30a	The Cleveland Show (r)	671	0.32
4:00a	The Cleveland Show (r)	689	0.34
4:30a	American Dad (r)	777	0.40
5:00a	King of the Hill (r)	723	0.36
5:30a	King of the Hill (r)	690	0.33

Cable Rankings – Saturday 04/30/16

What follows are the top 100 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Saturday, April 30:

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research