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[05/20/14 - 10:57 AM]
Saturday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: "48 Hours" Tops Viewers, "Dateline" Leads Demos
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select final nielsen ratings
(national numbers for saturday, may 17, 2014)

Here are the highlights of 22 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast and cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

48 Hours (10:00) - CBS
4.972 million viewers, #1; 1.010 million adults 18-49 (0.80 rating), #3

Dateline NBC (8:00, 120 Minutes) - NBC
4.957 million viewers, #2; 1.098 million adults 18-49 (0.86 rating), #1

NASCAR Sprint Cup Racing - FS1
3.482 million viewers, #3; 1.021 million adults 18-49 (0.80 rating), #2

NASCAR Sprint Cup Racing Qualifying - FS1
2.014 million viewers, #4; 0.615 million adults 18-49 (0.48 rating), #4

The Haunted Hathaways (8:00) - Nickelodeon
1.914 million viewers, #5; 0.435 million adults 18-49 (0.34 rating), #9

The Haunted Hathaways (8:30) - Nickelodeon
1.508 million viewers, #6; 0.329 million adults 18-49 (0.26 rating), #12

Return to Zero (8:00) - Lifetime
1.497 million viewers, #7; 0.446 million adults 18-49 (0.35 rating), #7

House Hunters Renovation (10:00) - HGTV
1.406 million viewers, #8; 0.451 million adults 18-49 (0.36 rating), #6

Sex Sent Me to the ER (9:00) - TLC
1.315 million viewers, #9; 0.436 million adults 18-49 (0.34 rating), #8

OMG EMT! (10:00) - TLC
0.973 million viewers, #10; 0.326 million adults 18-49 (0.26 rating), #13

Bellator 120 (9:08) - Spike TV
0.776 million viewers, #11; 0.457 million adults 18-49 (0.36 rating), #5

Ghost Adventures (9:00) - Travel
0.750 million viewers, #12; 0.423 million adults 18-49 (0.33 rating), #10

How (Not) to Kill Your Husband (10:00) - ID
0.682 million viewers, #13; 0.280 million adults 18-49 (0.22 rating), #15

Bellator 120 (8:00) - Spike TV
0.648 million viewers, #14; 0.364 million adults 18-49 (0.29 rating), #11

My Cat from Hell (8:00) - Animal Planet
0.595 million viewers, #15; 0.259 million adults 18-49 (0.20 rating), #17

Outrageous Acts of Science (10:00) - Science
0.569 million viewers, #16; 0.260 million adults 18-49 (0.20 rating), #16

Orphan Black (9:00) - BBCA
0.510 million viewers, #17; 0.316 million adults 18-49 (0.25 rating), #14

Iyanla: Fix My Life (9:00)* - OWN
0.455 million viewers, #18; 0.171 million adults 18-49 (0.13 rating), #18

Love in the City (10:00)* - OWN
0.455 million viewers, #19; 0.171 million adults 18-49 (0.13 rating), #19

America's Book of Secrets (10:00)* - H2
0.393 million viewers, #20; 0.104 million adults 18-49 (0.08 rating), #22

In the Flesh (10:00)* - BBCA
0.324 million viewers, #21; 0.150 million adults 18-49 (0.12 rating), #20

Da Vinci's Demons (9:00)* - Starz
0.288 million viewers, #22; 0.136 million adults 18-49 (0.11 rating), #21

[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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