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March 21, 2016
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 3.19-20.2016

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 19 and Sunday March 20, 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
3.76 rating ABC 8:30 pm GS Warriors at SA Spurs

College Basketball

NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: Second Round
Saturday
3.94 rating CBS 12:00 pm #11-Wichita State vs #3-Miami
5.73 rating CBS 2:30 pm #12-Yale vs #4-Duke
6.86 rating CBS 5:00 pm #5-Indiana vs #4-Kentucky
0.69 rating TNT 6:00 pm #12-Arkansas-Little Rock vs #4-Iowa State
1.63 rating TBS 7:00 pm #9-Butler vs #1-Virginia
4.00 rating CBS 7:30 pm #9-Connecticut vs #1-Kansas
1.14 rating TNT 8:30 pm #11-Gonzaga vs #3-Utah
2.59 rating TBS 9:30 pm #9-Providence vs #1-North Carolina
Sunday
3.65 rating CBS 12:00 pm #7-Iowa vs #2-Villanova
5.81 rating CBS 2:30 pm #14-Stephen F Austin vs #6-Notre Dame
5.77 rating CBS 5:00 pm #10-VCU vs #2-Oklahoma
1.57 rating TNT 6:00 pm #15-Middle Tennesssee vs #10-Syracuse
1.96 rating TBS 7:00 pm #13-Hawaii vs #5-Maryland
1.66 rating TRU 7:30 pm #11-Northern Iowa vs #3-Texas A&M
1.82 rating TNT 8:30 pm #7-Wisconsin vs #2-Xavier
1.81 rating TBS 9:30 pm #8-Saint Joseph’s vs #1-Oregon

Golf

PGA: Arnold Palmer Invitational (Orlando, FL)
1.30 rating NBC 3:00 pm Saturday Third Round
2.20 rating NBC 3:00 pm Sunday Final Round

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Sunday
3.52 rating FOX 3:45 pm Auto Club 400 (Fontana, CA)

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Saturday
0.87 rating FS1 4:00 pm (Fontana, CA)

INDYCAR
Sunday
Returns April 2 with Phoenix Grand Prix

FORMULA ONE
Sunday
0.21 rating NBCSN 12:30 am Australian Grand Prix

Soccer

Premier League
Saturday
0.41 rating NBCSN 8:30 am Everton vs Arsenal
0.36 rating NBCSN 11:00 am Crystal Palace vs Leicester City
0.24 rating USA 11:00 am Chelsea vs West Ham
0.22 rating NBCSN 1:30 pm Swansea vs Aston Villa
Sunday
0.34 rating NBCSN 9:30 pm Newcastle United vs Sunderland
0.97 rating NBC 12:00 pm Manchester City vs Manchester United

Bundesliga
Saturday
0.23 rating FOX 1:30 pm Frankfurt vs Hannover 96
Sunday
n/a rating FS1 10:30 am Stuttgart vs Bayer Leverkusen

NHL

Sunday
0.42 rating NBCSN 6:00 pm WAS Capitals at PIT Penguins
0.48 rating NBCSN 8:30 pm MIN Wild at CHI Blackhawks

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.