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[06/17/14 - 02:44 PM]
Saturday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: ESPN Tops Demos with World Cup Soccer
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select final nielsen ratings
(national numbers for saturday, june 14, 2014)

Here are the highlights of 29 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast and cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

Dateline NBC (8:00, 120 Minutes) - NBC
4.462 million viewers, #1; 0.983 million adults 18-49 (0.77 rating), #3

World Cup Soccer (5:30) - ESPN
4.114 million viewers, #2; 2.222 million adults 18-49 (1.75 rating), #1

World Cup Soccer (8:30) - ESPN
3.445 million viewers, #3; 1.827 million adults 18-49 (1.44 rating), #2

Sing Your Face Off (9:00, 120 Minutes) - ABC
2.383 million viewers, #4; 0.696 million adults 18-49 (0.55 rating), #4

FOX Saturday Baseball - FOX
2.210 million viewers, #5; 0.666 million adults 18-49 (0.52 rating), #5

The Thundermans (8:00) - Nickelodeon
2.160 million viewers, #6; 0.451 million adults 18-49 (0.35 rating), #7

Bet on Your Baby (8:00) - ABC
1.911 million viewers, #7; 0.453 million adults 18-49 (0.36 rating), #6

House Hunters Renovation (10:00) - HGTV
1.501 million viewers, #8; 0.421 million adults 18-49 (0.33 rating), #10

The Mentor (8:00) - Lifetime
1.391 million viewers, #9; 0.425 million adults 18-49 (0.33 rating), #9

Sex Sent Me to the ER (9:00) - TLC
1.141 million viewers, #10; 0.428 million adults 18-49 (0.34 rating), #8

Sinbad: Make Me Wanna Holla (9:00) - Comedy Central
0.849 million viewers, #11; 0.398 million adults 18-49 (0.31 rating), #11

My Cat from Hell (8:00) - Animal Planet
0.821 million viewers, #12; 0.281 million adults 18-49 (0.22 rating), #17

Devil in the Details (10:00) - ID
0.790 million viewers, #13; 0.274 million adults 18-49 (0.22 rating), #18

UFC Prelims - FX
0.784 million viewers, #14; 0.390 million adults 18-49 (0.31 rating), #12

Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? (8:00)* - ID
0.722 million viewers, #15; 0.283 million adults 18-49 (0.22 rating), #16

Happily Never After (9:00) - ID
0.706 million viewers, #16; 0.328 million adults 18-49 (0.26 rating), #14

My Tiny Terror (10:00)* - Animal Planet
0.647 million viewers, #17; 0.207 million adults 18-49 (0.16 rating), #20

Power (9:00) - Starz
0.614 million viewers, #18; 0.389 million adults 18-49 (0.31 rating), #13

Orphan Black (9:00) - BBCA
0.613 million viewers, #19; 0.316 million adults 18-49 (0.25 rating), #15

My Haunted House (9:00)* - LMN
0.495 million viewers, #20; 0.189 million adults 18-49 (0.15 rating), #21

A S�ance with� (10:00)* - LMN
0.495 million viewers, #21; 0.189 million adults 18-49 (0.15 rating), #22

Ghost Adventures (9:00)* - Travel
0.420 million viewers, #22; 0.171 million adults 18-49 (0.13 rating), #23

After Shock: Tara Conner (8:00)* - E!
0.415 million viewers, #23; 0.271 million adults 18-49 (0.21 rating), #19

The Graham Norton Show (10:00)* - BBCA
0.359 million viewers, #24; 0.155 million adults 18-49 (0.12 rating), #25

America's Secret Slang (9:00)* - H2
0.358 million viewers, #25; 0.136 million adults 18-49 (0.11 rating), #26

United Stuff of America (10:00)* - H2
0.358 million viewers, #26; 0.136 million adults 18-49 (0.11 rating), #27

Dog and Beth: On the Hunt (9:00)* - CMT
0.355 million viewers, #27; 0.160 million adults 18-49 (0.13 rating), #24

Iyanla: Fix My Life (9:00)* - OWN
0.283 million viewers, #28; 0.089 million adults 18-49 (0.07 rating), #28

Life with La Toya (10:00)* - OWN
0.283 million viewers, #29; 0.089 million adults 18-49 (0.07 rating), #29

[EDITOR'S NOTE: * denotes individual program numbers were not available so the network's primetime average is listed]

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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