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April 4, 2016
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 4.2-3.2016

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 2 and Sunday April 3, 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.

College Basketball

NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: Final Four Round

Saturday
5.53 rating TBS with Jim Nantz and main CBS team
1.22 rating TNT with Oklahoma announcers
0.35 rating TRU with Villanova announcers
7.10 rating TBS+TNT+TRU 6:00 pm #2-Villanova def #2-Oklahoma 95-51
(versus 9.64 TBS+TNT+TRU 6:00 pm #1-Duke vs #7-Michigan State in 2015)

6.15 rating TBS with Jim Nantz and main CBS team
1.52 rating TNT with North Carolina announcers
0.40 rating TRU with Syracuse announcers
8.07 rating TBS+TNT+TRU 9:00 pm #1-North Carolina def #10-Syracuse 83-66
(versus 13.33 rating TBS+TNT+TRU 9:00 pm #1-Kentucky vs #1-Wisconsin in 2015)

Golf

PGA: Shell Houston Open (Houston, TX)
1.65 rating NBC 3:00 pm Saturday Third Round
2.59 rating NBC 3:00 pm Sunday Final Round

NBA

Sunday
1.73 rating ABC 3:30 pm OKC Thunder at HOU Houston

MLB

Sunday
1.37 rating ESPN 1:00 pm STL Cardinals at PIT Pirates
0.71 rating ESPN2 4:00 pm TOR Blue Jays at TB Rays
2.12 rating ESPN 8:30 pm NY Mets at KC Royals

NHL

Sunday
1.08 rating NBC 12:30 pm BOS Bruins at CHI Blackhawks
0.18 rating NBCSN 8:00 pm STL Blues at COL Avalanche

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Sunday
2.23 rating 1:00 pm FS1 STP 500 (Martinsville, VA)

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Saturday
Returns April 8 from Texas

INDYCAR
Saturday
0.29 rating NBCSN 9:00 pm Phoenix Grand Prix

FORMULA ONE
Sunday
0.55 rating NBCSN 10:30 am Grand Prix of Bahrain

Soccer

Premier League
Saturday
0.29 rating NBCSN 7:30 am Aston Villa vs Chelsea
0.41 rating NBCSN 10:00 am Arsenal vs Watford
0.19 rating USA 10:00 am Norwich City vs Newcastle United
0.83 rating NBC 12:30 pm Liverpool vs Tottenham
Sunday
0.38 rating NBCSN 8:30 am Leicester City vs Southampton
0.46 rating USA 10:30 am Manchester United vs Everton

Bundesliga
Saturday
0.25 rating FOX 12:30 pm Borussia Dortmund vs Werder Bremen

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.