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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 3.12-13.2016

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Written by: Mitch Metcalf
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The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 12 and Sunday March 13, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year.

NBA

Saturday
1.98 rating ABC 8:30 pm OKC Thunder at SA Spurs
Sunday
2.07 rating ABC 3:30 pm CLE Cavaliers at LA Clippers

College Basketball

Saturday
1.49 rating CBS 1:00 pm Michigan vs Purdue (Big Ten Tournament)
1.94 rating CBS 3:30 pm Michigan State vs Maryland (Big Ten Tournament)
1.08 rating CBS 6:00 pm (Mountain West Championship)
0.98 rating FOX 5:30 pm Seton Hall vs Villanova (Big East Championship)
Sunday
1.11 rating CBS 12:30 pm St John’s vs VCU (Atlantic 10 Championship)
2.38 rating CBS 3:00 pm Michigan State vs Purdue (Big Ten Championship)

3.72 rating CBS 5:30 pm NCAA Basketball Championship Selection Show

Golf

PGA: Valspar Championship (Palm Harbor, FL)
1.37 rating NBC 3:00 pm Saturday Third Round
2.34 rating NBC 3:00 pm Sunday Final Round

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Sunday
3.60 rating FOX 3:45 pm Good Sam 500 (Phoenix, AZ)

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Saturday
1.17 rating FOX 2:45 pm Axalta Faster Tougher Brighter 200 (Phoenix, AZ)

INDYCAR
Sunday
1.09 rating ABC 12:30 pm Firestone Grand Prix of St Petersburg (FL)

FORMULA ONE
Returns Mar 20 with Australian Grand Prix

Soccer

Premier League
Saturday
0.30 rating NBCSN 7:30 am Norwich City vs Manchester City
0.31 rating NBCSN 10:00 am Stoke City vs Southampton
0.15 rating USA 10:00 am Bournemouth vs Swansea
0.48 rating NBC 12:30 pm Tottenham vs Arsenal (repeat)
Sunday
0.26 rating NBCSN 12:00 pm Aston Villa vs Tottenham

FA Cup
Sunday
n/a rating FS1 9:30 am Arsenal vs Watford
n/a rating FS1 12:00 pm Manchester United vs West Ham

NHL

Sunday
0.88 rating NBC 12:30 pm PIT Penguins at NY Rangers
0.33 rating NBCSN 7:30 pm TOR Maple Leafs at DET Red Wings

Other

n/a

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About the Author

Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.