Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn, SportsCenter top cable sports TV ratings for Wednesday September 28, 2016

 

Cable Sports TV Ratings for Wednesday September 28, 2016:
(includes top-10 for all cable shows + most-watched Gunsmoke rerun on TV Land)

This is sorted from most-watched to least-watched. But you can sort it almost any way you want – the time sort doesn’t really work, but everything else does. The search feature is great, too.

Note to readers using mobile phones: the tables are still 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…