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[11/20/12 - 01:23 PM]
Saturday's Cable Ratings: College Football, "Matchmaker Santa" Top Charts
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for saturday, november 17, 2012)

Here are the highlights of 16 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

College Football: Kansas State/Baylor - ESPN
3.313 million viewers, #1; 1.369 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #1

Matchmaker Santa - Hallmark
3.275 million viewers, #2; 0.710 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #2

Holiday High School Reunion - Lifetime
1.423 million viewers, #3; 0.522 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #7

Wedding Band - TBS
1.243 million viewers, #4; 0.665 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #4

Parking Wars (9:30) - A&E
1.159 million viewers, #5; 0.538 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #5

Parking Wars (9:00) - A&E
1.136 million viewers, #6; 0.490 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #9

Billy the Exterminator (10:30) - A&E
1.135 million viewers, #7; 0.524 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #6

Tanked (9:00) - Animal Planet
1.102 million viewers, #8; 0.326 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #13

College Football (7:00) - ESPN2
1.097 million viewers, #9; 0.421 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #11

Billy the Exterminator (10:00) - A&E
1.065 million viewers, #10; 0.510 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #8

UFC 154 Preliminaries - FX
0.980 million viewers, #11; 0.705 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #3

Welcome to Sweetie Pie's - OWN
0.937 million viewers, #12; 0.412 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #12

Iyanla, Fix My Life - OWN
0.915 million viewers, #13; 0.442 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #10

College Football (10:30) - ESPN2
0.455 million viewers, #14; 0.180 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #14

Coaches vs Cancer Game 1 - truTV
0.178 million viewers, #15; 0.084 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #15

Coaches vs Cancer Game 2 - truTV
0.067 million viewers, #16; 0.042 million adults 18-49 (0.0 rating), #16

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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