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[06/03/14 - 11:04 AM]
Saturday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: NBA Playoffs Eclipse the Competition
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select final nielsen ratings
(national numbers for saturday, may 31, 2014)

Here are the highlights of 28 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast and cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

NBA Playoffs: Spurs at Thunder - TNT
8.151 million viewers, #1; 3.872 million adults 18-49 (3.05 rating), #1

Dateline NBC (9:00) - NBC
3.774 million viewers, #2; 1.107 million adults 18-49 (0.87 rating), #2

Sing Your Face Off (9:00, 120 Minutes) - ABC
2.731 million viewers, #3; 0.814 million adults 18-49 (0.64 rating), #4

Bet on Your Baby (8:00) - ABC
2.184 million viewers, #4; 0.597 million adults 18-49 (0.47 rating), #5

NBA Pre-Game - TNT
2.125 million viewers, #5; 0.872 million adults 18-49 (0.69 rating), #3

Mariah Carey: At Home in Concert With Matt Lauer (8:00) - NBC
1.908 million viewers, #6; 0.483 million adults 18-49 (0.38 rating), #9

FOX Saturday Baseball - FOX
1.771 million viewers, #7; 0.510 million adults 18-49 (0.40 rating), #8

The Haunted Hathaways (8:30) - Nickelodeon
1.689 million viewers, #8; 0.357 million adults 18-49 (0.28 rating), #12

The Thundermans (8:00) - Nickelodeon
1.603 million viewers, #9; 0.317 million adults 18-49 (0.25 rating), #14

House Hunters Renovation (10:00) - HGTV
1.595 million viewers, #10; 0.440 million adults 18-49 (0.35 rating), #10

The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom (9:00) - Lifetime
1.416 million viewers, #11; 0.512 million adults 18-49 (0.40 rating), #7

Sex Sent Me to the ER (9:00) - TLC
1.299 million viewers, #12; 0.518 million adults 18-49 (0.41 rating), #6

2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (8:00) - HBO
0.918 million viewers, #13; 0.295 million adults 18-49 (0.23 rating), #15

The Color of Rain (9:00)* - HMC
0.915 million viewers, #14; 0.154 million adults 18-49 (0.12 rating), #25

Happily Never After (9:00) - ID
0.900 million viewers, #15; 0.363 million adults 18-49 (0.29 rating), #11

We Should Have Eloped! (10:00) - TLC
0.808 million viewers, #16; 0.288 million adults 18-49 (0.23 rating), #17

How (Not) to Kill Your Husband (10:00) - ID
0.797 million viewers, #17; 0.351 million adults 18-49 (0.28 rating), #13

Ghost Adventures (9:00) - Travel
0.642 million viewers, #18; 0.277 million adults 18-49 (0.22 rating), #18

My Cat from Hell (8:00)* - Animal Planet
0.563 million viewers, #19; 0.132 million adults 18-49 (0.10 rating), #26

My Tiny Terror (9:00)* - Animal Planet
0.563 million viewers, #20; 0.132 million adults 18-49 (0.10 rating), #27

Mini Monsters (9:00, 120 Minutes) - Discovery
0.525 million viewers, #21; 0.179 million adults 18-49 (0.15 rating), #19

Orphan Black (9:00) - BBCA
0.497 million viewers, #22; 0.288 million adults 18-49 (0.23 rating), #16

America's Secret Slang (9:00)* - H2
0.454 million viewers, #23; 0.155 million adults 18-49 (0.12 rating), #23

America's Book of Secrets (10:00)* - H2
0.454 million viewers, #24; 0.155 million adults 18-49 (0.12 rating), #24

Iyanla: Fix My Life (9:00)* - OWN
0.413 million viewers, #25; 0.173 million adults 18-49 (0.14 rating), #20

Flex & Shanice: All In The Family (10:00)* - OWN
0.413 million viewers, #26; 0.173 million adults 18-49 (0.14 rating), #21

The Graham Norton Show (10:00)* - BBCA
0.343 million viewers, #27; 0.168 million adults 18-49 (0.13 rating), #22

Da Vinci's Demons (9:00)* - Starz
0.254 million viewers, #28; 0.114 million adults 18-49 (0.09 rating), #28

[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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