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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 5.14-15.2016

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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 May 14 and Sunday May 15, 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.

Golf

PGA: Players Championship (Ponte Vedra, FL)
2.35 rating NBC 2:00 pm Saturday Third Round (vs 2.34 in 2015)
3.12 rating NBC 2:00 pm Sunday Final Round (vs 3.91 in 2015)

NBA Playoffs

Sunday
Eastern Conference Semifinals
4.44 rating ABC 3:30 pm TOR Raptors at MIA Heat Game 7

MLB

Sunday
n/a rating ESPN 8:00 pm STL Cardinals at LA Dodgers

NHL Playoffs

Sunday
Western Conference Finals
1.26 rating NBCSN 8:00 pm SJ Sharks at STL Blues Game 1

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Sunday
2.22 rating FS1 7:30 pm AAA 400 (Dover, DE)

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Saturday
1.05 rating FOX 2:00 pm Ollie’s Bargain Outlet 200 (Dover, DE)

INDYCAR
Saturday
0.97 rating ABC 3:30 pm Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis

FORMULA ONE
Sunday
0.44 rating 7:30 am Grand Prix of Spain

Soccer

Premier League
Sunday
0.64 rating NBC 7:00 am Swansea vs Manchester City
0.23 rating NBCSN 7:00 am Manchester United vs Bournemouth
0.17 rating MSNBC 7:00 am West Brom vs Liverpool
0.15 rating SYFY 7:00 am Arsenal vs Aston Villa
0.14 rating USA 7:00 am Newcastle vs Tottenham
0.13 rating CNBC 7:00 am Chelsea vs Leicester
0.04 rating BRAVO 7:00 am Stoke City vs West Ham
0.04 rating E! 7:00 am Southampton vs Crystal Palace
0.01 rating ESQ 7:00 am Everton vs Norwich
0.01 rating OXY 7:00 am Watford vs Sunderland

Bundesliga
Saturday
0.41 rating FOX 9:30 am Bayern Munich vs Hannover 96

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.