Michigan State-Miami, Troy-Duke, Rhode Island-Creighton top cable sports TV ratings for Friday March 17, 2017

 

Standard disclaimer for March 13-17, 2017: I’m not sure if “better late than never applies here” especially since there’s no 18-49 or Tennis Channel numbers, but hopefully “it’s better than nothing!” still applies.

Cable Sports TV Ratings for Friday March 17, 2017:
(includes top-10 for all cable shows)

Note to readers using mobile phones: the tables are  easier to read/scroll through if you tilt your phone to landscape orientation.

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All data ©Nielsen (data provided by a variety of TV network sources and not directly from Nielsen)

Note: viewership of around 100,000 or lower is technically what Nielsen refers to as a “scratch” i.e., not enough Nielsen panelists watched for Nielsen to validate it. There are around 40,000 homes in the Nielsen panel and a bit over 100,000 panelists, where 1 Nielsen panelist watching a whole telecast represents around 3,000 people. So something averaging a million viewers averaged around 370 people out of the ~100K panel — small, but still statistically significant. But when there’s a show with 30,000 viewers, that’s only around 10 Nielsen panelists…