PTI, Vanderbilt-Stanford, SportsCenter, Around the Horn lead cable sports nets for Tuesday March 24, 2015

ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption averaged  1.052 million viewers viewers and a 0.5 adults 18-49 rating.

In NIT action on ESPN Vanderbilt vs Stanford averaged 726,000 and Miami vs Richmond averaged 576,000.

The Around the Horn that saw Pablo Torre muted into oblivion for his pick of Lafayette over Villanova averaged 692,000.

A steep drop for day two of Highly Questionable on ESPN. It was down from Monday’s 577,000 to 370,000 viewers on Tuesday.

Cable Sports TV Ratings for Tuesday March 24, 2015:

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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…