Warriors-Clippers, Spurs-Heat, PTI lead cable sports nets for Tuesday March 31, 2015

The odd Tuesday of NBA action on TNT led the day with the Golden State Warriors win over the Los Angeles Clippers in the late game (10:47ET start) averaging 1.62 million viewers and a 0.7 adults 18-49 rating.  Earlier, the San Antonio Spurs vs Miami Heat matchup averaged 1.349 million viewers and a 0.5 adults 18-49 rating.

ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption averaged  917,000 viewers viewers and a 0.4 adults 18-49 rating.

In NIT action on ESPN  Miami vs Temple averaged 895,000 and a 0.2 adults 18-49 rating and Stanford vs Old Dominion averaged 827,000 viewers and a 0.3 adults 18-49 rating.

On Univision Deportes Mexico vs Paraguay averaged 894,000. Impressive since the channel is only in about 40 million homes and that another 2.33 million watched on UniMás. On ESPN2 the match averaged 157,000 viewers.

The international soccer friendly tie between Switzerland and the USA averaged 261,000 viewers and a 0.1 adults 18-49 rating,

Cable Sports TV Ratings for Tuesday March 31, 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…