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March 24, 2014
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

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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 22 and Sunday March 23, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.

College Basketball: NCAA Tournament Round of 32 to 16

7.9 rating CBS 2:30 pm Sunday #8-Kentucky vs #1-Wichita State 78-76
7.5 rating CBS 5:00 pm Sunday #6-North Carolina vs #3-Iowa State 83-85
5.2 rating CBS 2:45 pm Saturday #5-Saint Louis vs #4-Louisville 51-66
4.9 rating CBS 12:00 pm Sunday #10-Stanford vs #2-Kansas 60-57
4.8 rating CBS 5:20 pm Saturday #7-Texas vs #2-Michigan 65-79
4.3 rating CBS 8:07 pm Saturday #7-Oregon vs #2-Wisconsin 77-85
3.9 rating CBS 12:15 pm Saturday #9-Pittsburgh vs #1-Florida 45-61
2.4 rating TBS 7:10 pm Saturday #11-Dayton vs #3-Syracuse 55-53
2.2 rating TNT 8:57 pm Sunday #8-Memphis vs #1-Virginia 60-78
2.1 rating TBS 10:00 pm Saturday #7-Connecticut vs #2-Villanova 77-65
1.9 rating TBS 9:53 pm Sunday #8-Gonzaga vs #1-Arizona 61-84
1.8 rating TNT 8:48 pm Saturday #12-Harvard vs #4-Michigan State 73-80
1.7 rating TNT 6:10 pm Sunday #14-Mercer vs #11-Tennessee 63-83
1.5 rating TBS 7:10 pm Sunday #12-SF Austin vs #4-UCLA 60-77
1.4 rating TNT 6:10 pm Saturday #12-North Dakota State vs #4-San Diego State 44-63
1.1 rating TRU 8:11 pm Sunday #6-Baylor vs #3-Creighton 85-55

 

NASCAR

4.0 rating FOX 2:30 pm Sunday Auto Club California 400 (-11% from 4.5 last year)

 

PGA Golf: Arnold Palmer Invitational

1.2 rating NBC 2:00 pm Saturday 3rd Round (-50% from 2.4 last year)
1.9 rating NBC 2:00 pm Sunday Final Round (+12% from 1.7 last year for rain delay)

 

Soccer

Premier League
0.38 rating NBCSN 8:45 am Saturday Arsenal at Chelsea
0.36 rating NBCSN 11:00 am Saturday Liverpool at Cardiff City
0.34 rating NBCSN 1:30 pm Saturday Manchester United at West Ham United

0.28 rating NBCSN 9:30 am Sunday Southampton at Tottenham Hotspur
0.22 rating NBCSN 12:00 pm Sunday Stoke City at Aston Villa

 



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.