SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 6.11-12.2016

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The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 11 and Sunday June 12, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same weekend last year.  Click here for last year two weeks ago (when the Belmont Stakes landed on the calendar).

NBA Playoffs

Returns Monday with Game 5

Horse Racing: Triple Crown

Belmont Stakes (Saturday)
n/a rating NBC 4:30-5:00 pm (3.2 in 2015, 4.0 in 2014; n/a in 2013; 2.1 in 2012)
2.30 rating NBC 5:00-6:15 pm (6.4 in 2015, 7.4 in 2014; 2.5 in 2013; 3.1 in 2012)
4.30 rating NBC 6:15-7:00 pm (12.3 in 2015, 12.9 in 2014; 4.6 in 2013; 5.4 in 2012)*

Preakness Stakes Flashback Three Weeks Ago (Saturday May 21, 2016)
2.4 rating NBC 5:00-5:30 pm (2.2 in 2015, 2.4 in 2014; 2.4 in 2013; 1.7 in 2012)
3.8 rating NBC 5:30-6:15 pm (3.4 in 2015, 3.5 in 2014, 3.6 in 2013; 2.9 in 2012)
6.2 rating NBC 6:15-7:15 pm (5.8 in 2015, 6.3 in 2014; 6.0 in 2013; 5.5 in 2012)

Kentucky Derby Flashback Five Weeks Ago (Saturday May 7, 2016)
3.9 rating NBC 4:30-5:15 pm (4.1 in 2015, 4.0 in 2014; 4.1 in 2013; 3.7 in 2012)
6.2 rating NBC 5:15-6:15 pm (6.5 in 2015, 5.9 in 2014; 6.2 in 2013; 5.4 in 2012)
9.4 rating NBC 6:15-7:15 pm (10.8 in 2015, 10.1 in 2014; 10.4 in 2013; 9.0 in 2012)

Note: pre-race coverage ratings in italics. Race coverage in bold.
* Belmont Stakes race coverage was 6:15-7:15 in 2015, 6:15-7:00 in 2012-2014 & 2016
Triple Crown at stake in 2014 and 2015. No Triple Crown possible 2012, 2013 and 2016.

Golf

PGA: FedEx St. Jude Classic (Memphis, TN)
1.49 rating CBS 3:00 pm Saturday Third Round (1.14 rating last year)
1.66 rating CBS 3:30 pm Sunday Final Round (1.63 rating last year)

Women’s PGA Championship
0.54 rating NBC 2:00 pm Saturday Third Round (0.59 rating last year)
0.70 rating NBC 4:30 pm Sunday Final Round (0.62 rating last year)

Auto Racing

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Saturday
0.76 rating FS1 1:30 pm Menards 250 (Brooklyn, MI)
(0.79 rating last year)

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Sunday
2.04 rating FS1 1:00 pm FireKeepers Casino 400 (Brooklyn, MI)
(1.97 rating last year)

INDYCAR
Saturday
0.22 rating NBCSN 8:30 pm Firestone 600 (Ft Worth, TX)

FORMULA ONE
Sunday
0.26 rating NBCSN 2:00-3:45 pm Grand Prix of Canada
1.12 rating NBC 3:30-3:45 pm Grand Prix of Canada (race conclusion simulcast)

NHL Playoffs

Sunday
3.72 rating NBC 8:00 pm Stanley Cup Final Pittsburgh at San Jose Game 6
(versus 3.82 rating last year on Saturday for CHI-TB Game 5)

MLB

Saturday
2.06 rating FOX 7:00 pm (DET-NYY 30% of US in 22 markets, STL-PIT 24% in 23, LAD-SF 17% in 11)
(1.64 rating last year for NYY-BAL in 52%, ARI-SF in 15%, CIN-CHC in 4%)

Sunday
n/a rating ESPN 5:00 pm STL Cardinals at PIT Pirates
n/a rating ESPN 8:30 pm LA Dodgers at SF Giants

Soccer

UEFA Euro 2016
Saturday
n/a rating ESPN 8:30 am Albania vs Switzerland
n/a rating ESPN 11:30 am Wales vs Slovakia
n/a rating ESPN 2:30 pm England vs Russia
Sunday
n/a rating ESPN 8:30 am Turkey vs Croatia
n/a rating ESPN 11:30 am Poland vs Northern Ireland
n/a rating ESPN 2:30 pm Germany vs Ukraine

Copa America
Saturday
1.32 rating FS1 7:00 pm U.S. vs Paraguay
Sunday
n/a rating FS1 8:30 pm Brazil vs Peru

Other

n/a

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