It was a heavy sports Saturday with ESPN out in front in all measures on the night with “NBA Eastern Conference Final Game 3: Cleveland Cavaliers @ Toronto Raptors”: total viewers (4.73 million), adults 18-49 (1.8 rating), adults 18-34 (1.6 rating) and adults 25-54 (1.9 rating). In prime time (8-11 p.m.), ESPN tripled the second-place […]
Saturday television returned to a relatively quiet evening with CBS and ABC winning parts of prime time. CBS led in total viewers (3.73 million) while the telecast of the 2009 football movie “The Blind Side” starring Sandra Bullock in her Academy Award winning role helped ABC place first in all key demographics. The “UFC 198 […]
Portland Trail Blazers’ 120-108 Game 3 victory over the Steph Curry-less Golden State Warriors in the NBA Western Conference Semifinals gave ABC a decisive Saturday night win among total viewers (5.16 million), adults 18-49 (1.7 rating/7 share), adults 18-34 (1.5/8), and adults 25-54 (1.9/7). NBC also enjoyed positive ratings from the early evening with the […]
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 […]
CBS was Saturday night’s most-watched network with an average of 4.42 million viewers. NBC and ESPN each had a virtual tie among all key demos: adults 18-49 (1.0 rating), adults 18-34 (0.9 rating) and adults 25-54 (1.1 rating). For most of prime time, NBC’s Game 6 of the NHL Western Conference Quarterfinal series, St. Louis […]
NBC edged by Fox to be Saturday night’s most-watched network with an average of 4.094 million viewers in prime time (vs. 4.085 million for Fox). Fox was tops among adults 18-49 (0.9 rating/3 share) and adults 25-54 (1.3/4). Despite being delayed by rain, “NASCAR Sprint Cup: Duck Commander 500” from Texas bested the combined viewership […]
Saturday night belonged to TBS with coverage of the “NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball Final Four”. In conjunction with “Team Stream” telecasts of each game on TNT and truTV, both college basketball games averaged 11.7 million viewers across the three Turner networks. But the news was far from positive when comparing the games to previous […]
CBS was the runaway winner on Saturday night with the network’s final night covering the “NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball Tournament”. It was a doubleheader of Regional Final games that began airing at 6:00 p.m. ET: Oklahoma/Oregon in the West and Villanova/Kansas in the South. Compared to ABC, NBC and Fox combined, CBS outdrew their […]
NBC was the most-watched network on Saturday night with an average of 4.28 million total viewers. Coverage of college basketball’s conference tournament finals — primarily the ACC final between Virginia and North Carolina — gave ESPN a prime time victory among adults 18-49 (0.9 rating) and adults 18-34 (0.8 rating). The “2016 Kids’ Choice Awards” […]
