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[03/11/14 - 12:15 PM]
Saturday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: College Basketball Leads Demos, "48 Hours" Tops Viewers
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select final nielsen ratings
(national numbers for saturday, march 8, 2014)

Here are the highlights of 26 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast and cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

48 Hours (10:00) - CBS
5.122 million viewers, #1; 1.025 million adults 18-49 (0.81 rating), #2

College Basketball (9:00) - ESPN
3.498 million viewers, #2; 1.490 million adults 18-49 (1.17 rating), #1

The Trip to Bountiful (8:00) - Lifetime
2.148 million viewers, #3; 0.611 million adults 18-49 (0.48 rating), #5

College Basketball (6:08) - ESPN
2.071 million viewers, #4; 0.804 million adults 18-49 (0.63 rating), #3

A Ring by Spring (7:00) - Hallmark
1.708 million viewers, #5; 0.296 million adults 18-49 (0.23 rating), #15

When Calls the Heart (9:00)* - Hallmark
1.646 million viewers, #6; 0.273 million adults 18-49 (0.21 rating), #16

Cops (8:00) - Spike TV
1.624 million viewers, #7; 0.717 million adults 18-49 (0.57 rating), #4

Too Cute! (8:00) - Animal Planet
1.110 million viewers, #8; 0.353 million adults 18-49 (0.28 rating), #10

Timber Kings (10:00) - Discovery
1.015 million viewers, #9; 0.408 million adults 18-49 (0.32 rating), #8

The World's Oddest Animal Couples (9:00) - Animal Planet
0.991 million viewers, #10; 0.321 million adults 18-49 (0.25 rating), #11

Flipping Vegas (10:00) - A&E
0.981 million viewers, #11; 0.434 million adults 18-49 (0.34 rating), #7

Ghost Adventures (9:00) - Travel
0.909 million viewers, #12; 0.467 million adults 18-49 (0.37 rating), #6

Scorned: Love Kills (10:00) - ID
0.903 million viewers, #13; 0.320 million adults 18-49 (0.25 rating), #12

Deadly Sins (9:00)* - ID
0.861 million viewers, #14; 0.300 million adults 18-49 (0.24 rating), #14

Glory 14: Zagreb (9:00)* - Spike TV
0.851 million viewers, #15; 0.382 million adults 18-49 (0.30 rating), #9

Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? (8:00) - ID
0.800 million viewers, #16; 0.309 million adults 18-49 (0.24 rating), #13

Raising Whitley (9:00)* - OWN
0.622 million viewers, #17; 0.217 million adults 18-49 (0.17 rating), #17

Deion's Family Playbook (10:00)* - OWN
0.622 million viewers, #18; 0.217 million adults 18-49 (0.17 rating), #18

Swamp Pawn (9:00)* - CMT
0.499 million viewers, #19; 0.214 million adults 18-49 (0.17 rating), #19

My Big Redneck Family (10:00)* - CMT
0.499 million viewers, #20; 0.214 million adults 18-49 (0.17 rating), #20

Tattoo Titans (10:30)* - CMT
0.499 million viewers, #21; 0.214 million adults 18-49 (0.17 rating), #21

Outrageous Acts of Science (10:00)* - Science
0.432 million viewers, #22; 0.172 million adults 18-49 (0.14 rating), #22

Black Sails (9:00)* - Starz
0.368 million viewers, #23; 0.145 million adults 18-49 (0.11 rating), #23

The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved (10:00)* - H2
0.308 million viewers, #24; 0.087 million adults 18-49 (0.07 rating), #24

Ripper Street (9:00)* - BBCA
0.248 million viewers, #25; 0.071 million adults 18-49 (0.06 rating), #25

The Graham Norton Show (10:15)* - BBCA
0.248 million viewers, #26; 0.071 million adults 18-49 (0.06 rating), #26

[EDITOR'S NOTE: * denotes individual program numbers were not available so the network's primetime average is listed]

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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