Notre Dame-Connecticut, Spurs-Thunder, SportsCenter lead cable sports nets for Tuesday April 7, 2015

Connecticut’s win over Notre Dame in the women’s NCAA basketball tournament championship led the cable sports landscape for the day with 3.081 million viewers and a 0.7 adults 18-49 rating but was down 28% from last year’s 4.27 million viewers.

The San Antonio Spurs vs the Oklahoma City Thunder on TNT averaged 1.217 million viewers and a 0.5 adults 18-49 rating. The battle of Los Angeles between the Lakers and the Clippers averaged 965,000 and a 0.3 adults 18-49 rating.

ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption averaged  935,000 viewers viewers and a 0.4 adults 18-49 rating.

Cable Sports TV Ratings for Tuesday April 7, 2015:

This is sorted from most-watched to least-watched. Using your browser’s search tool (usually CTRL/CMD+F) might be the faster way to go if you’re looking for something specific.

Note to readers using mobile phones: on most phones the table is  probably easier to read/scroll through if you tilt your phone to landscape orientation.

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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 20,000 homes in the Nielsen panel and a bit over 50,000 panelists, where 1 Nielsen panelist watching a whole telecast represents around 5,800 people.  So something averaging a million viewers averaged around 170 people out of the 50K+ panel — small, but still statistically significant. But when there’s a show with 30,000 viewers, that’s only around 5 or 6 Nielsen panelists…