Sunday, March 27, 2016

THURSDAY MARCH 17, 2016 CABLE TV RATINGS

Select Ratings from Original Cable telecasts on Thursday March 17, 2016:

The NCAA TOURNAMENT led the night with 12 different games airing on 3 different networks. The 4 TBS games averaged 1.96 million viewers (but it was brought down by one airing that had 641,000), the 4 TNT games averaged 1.54 million (lowest airing was 979,000), and 4 TruTV airings averaged 847,000 viewers. Available men 18-49 ratings were provided in the chart.

Elsewhere, History's VIKINGS lost 200K viewers down to 2.13 million (0.73 in M18-49, 1.13 in P50+), and USA Network's WWE SMACKDOWN was at 0.82 in M18-49 with 2.26 million. COLONY, on USA, finished its first season with its highest audience since January 28th (1.21 mil) with 1.19 million tuning in for its season finale (0.38 in M18-49, 0.30 in women). On FX, the penultimate episode of the first season of BASKETS drew 500,000 viewers (0.24/0.20), its highest audience since February 18th (649,000). Over at Lifetime, PROJECT RUNWAY ALL STARS logged a 0.56 W18-49 with 1.44 million viewers, and at Bravo, TOP CHEF rose to 1.17 million viewers (0.55 in W18-49) MARY MARY, on WeTV, was down to 477,000 viewers, and on CMT, PARTY DOWN SOUTH dropped to 455,000, and REDNECK ISLAND ticked down to 377,000. Among lower rated cables were IFC's PORTLANDIA (131,000), Velocity's AMERICARNA (238,000), UP's BRINGING UP BATES (208,000), and Showtime's GIGOLOS (105,000).

BROADCAST UPDATE:
ProgramNetHHA18-49A18-34A25-54Viewers
(millions)
Grey’s AnatomyABC5.4/102.13/81.6/82.6/87.830
ScandalABC4.4/81.61/51.1/52.0/66.307
How to Get Away with MurderABC3.8/71.40/51.0/51.8/65.293
NCAA Basketball: Indiana/ChattanoogaCBS2.6/51.1/50.7/41.4/53.959
NCAA Basketball: Kentucky/Stony BrookCBS2.4/51.2/40.8/41.4/53.710
You, Me and the ApocalypseNBC1.9/30.58/20.3/10.8/32.762
Shades of BlueNBC3.4/60.97/30.5/21.4/45.009
American IdolFOX5.0/91.67/61.2/52.5/78.224

SUBDEMOS:
ShowW18-34M18-34W18-49M18-49
Grey’s Anatomy2.4/110.9/53.1/111.1/4
Scandal1.6/70.7/32.4/80.8/3
How to Get Away with Murder1.4/60.6/32.1/70.7/3
NCAA Basketball: Indiana/Chattanooga0.6/30.9/50.8/31.3/6
NCAA Basketball: Kentucky/Stony Brook0.5/21.0/50.9/31.5/6
You, Me and the Apocalypse0.4/20.2/10.7/20.5/2
Shades of Blue0.6/30.3/11.2/40.7/3
American Idol1.6/70.8/42.2/71.2/4

CABLE:
Table is organized based on the show's 18-49 rating.
Program Title
Channel
Viewers 2+
(millions)
18-49
Rating 
NCAA: FGCU/UNC (M18-49: 2.04)
TBS
3.588
1.44
NCAA: Wichita State/Arizona (M18-49: 1.52)
TNT
2.609
1.10
NCAA: Providence/USC (M18-49: 1.10)
TBS
1.812
0.76
60 Days In
A&E
1.618
0.68
WWE Smackdown
USA
2.260
0.68
NCAA: Little Rock/Purdue (M18-49: 0.99)
TBS
1.786
0.65
Vikings
History
2.133
0.62 
Flip or Flop
HGTV
2.361
0.59
NCAA: Gonzaga/Seton Hall (M18-49: 0.80)
TruTV
1.482
0.58
NCAA: Buffalo/Miami
TNT
1.487
0.58
The First 48
A&E
1.548
0.55
Top Chef
Bravo
1.169
0.46
Catfish
MTV
0.766
0.44
House Hunters International
HGTV
1.975
0.40
Beat Bobby Flay
Food Network
1.361
0.39
Cooks vs. Cons
Food Network
1.278
0.37 
Chopped
Food Network
1.239
0.37
Project Runway All-Stars
Lifetime
1.441
0.37
NCAA: Austin Peay/Kansas (M18-49: 0.50)
TNT
1.075
0.37
NCAA: UConn/Colorado (M18-49: 0.50)
TNT
0.979
0.35
Colony
USA
1.193
0.34
Masters of Flip
HGTV
1.328
0.33
Workaholics
Comedy
0.479
0.31
Real World
MTV
0.551
0.31
NCAA: Fresno State/Utah (M18-49: 0.41)
TruTV
0.928
0.30
Daily Show
Comedy
0.748
0.29 
Motives and Murders 
ID
1.054
0.23
Party Down South
CMT
0.455
0.22
NCAA: IONA/Iowa State (M18-49: 0.30)
TBS
0.641
0.22
Baskets
FX
0.500
0.22 
Real World Special
MTV
0.404
0.21
Join or Die - Ferguson
History
0.648
0.20
Nightly Show
Comedy
0.519
0.20
Mary Mary
WeTV
0.477
0.19
Idiotsitter
Comedy
0.310
0.18
At Midnight
Comedy
0.315
0.17
NCAA: Butler/Texas Tech
TruTV
0.568
0.17
Redneck Island
CMT
0.377
0.16
Adam Devine's House Party
Comedy
0.222
0.13
NCAA: Hampton/Virginia
TruTV
0.409
0.11
Mysteries at the Castle
Travel
0.588
0.10
Animation Domination
FXX
0.201
0.10
NBA: Portland/San Antonio
NBA TV
0.283
0.09
Americarna
Velocity
0.238
0.06
Night Class
History
0.283
0.06
Portlandia
IFC
0.131
0.06
Bringing Up Bates
UP
0.208
0.05
Gigolos
Showtime
0.105
0.03
Sources: Nielsen, ShowBuzzDaily, Programming Insider

PUT:
PUT (18-49) %
8pm-8:30pm25.2
8:30pm-9pm27.4
9pm-9:30pm28.9
9:30pm-10pm29.8
10pm-10:30pm29.0
10:30pm-11pm27.6

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