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[07/09/14 - 11:46 AM]
Saturday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: "Dateline," "Nightline" Claim Top Spots
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select final nielsen ratings
(national numbers for saturday, july 5, 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:

Dateline NBC (8:00, 120 Minutes) - NBC
5.267 million viewers, #1; 1.088 million adults 18-49 (0.86 rating), #1

Nightline Prime (10:00) - ABC
2.319 million viewers, #2; 0.572 million adults 18-49 (0.45 rating), #4

FOX Saturday Baseball - FOX
2.138 million viewers, #3; 0.575 million adults 18-49 (0.45 rating), #3

NASCAR Sprint Cup (7:46) - TNT
2.032 million viewers, #4; 0.526 million adults 18-49 (0.41 rating), #6

Bet on Your Baby (8:00) - ABC
1.720 million viewers, #5; 0.437 million adults 18-49 (0.34 rating), #9

Killing Daddy (8:00) - Lifetime
1.504 million viewers, #6; 0.504 million adults 18-49 (0.40 rating), #7

Bad Teacher (8:00) - CBS
1.425 million viewers, #7; 0.315 million adults 18-49 (0.25 rating), #12

Bad Teacher (8:30) - CBS
1.322 million viewers, #8; 0.375 million adults 18-49 (0.30 rating), #10

Sex Sent Me to the ER (9:00) - TLC
1.225 million viewers, #9; 0.550 million adults 18-49 (0.43 rating), #5

UFC Prelims - FS1
1.010 million viewers, #10; 0.650 million adults 18-49 (0.51 rating), #2

Buying Naked (10:00) - TLC
0.963 million viewers, #11; 0.463 million adults 18-49 (0.36 rating), #8

Buying Naked (10:30) - TLC
0.736 million viewers, #12; 0.354 million adults 18-49 (0.28 rating), #11

America's Cutest (10:00)* - Animal Planet
0.653 million viewers, #13; 0.211 million adults 18-49 (0.17 rating), #15

Happily Never After (9:00)* - ID
0.638 million viewers, #14; 0.207 million adults 18-49 (0.16 rating), #16

Devil in the Details (10:00)* - ID
0.638 million viewers, #15; 0.207 million adults 18-49 (0.16 rating), #17

My Cat from Hell (8:00) - Animal Planet
0.619 million viewers, #16; 0.251 million adults 18-49 (0.20 rating), #14

The Dead Files (10:00) - Travel
0.551 million viewers, #17; 0.263 million adults 18-49 (0.21 rating), #13

Dog and Beth: On the Hunt (9:00)* - CMT
0.346 million viewers, #18; 0.191 million adults 18-49 (0.15 rating), #18

My Dysfunctional Family (10:00)* - CMT
0.346 million viewers, #19; 0.191 million adults 18-49 (0.15 rating), #19

Outrageous Acts of Science (10:00)* - Science
0.302 million viewers, #20; 0.110 million adults 18-49 (0.09 rating), #20

Life with La Toya (10:00)* - OWN
0.217 million viewers, #21; 0.059 million adults 18-49 (0.05 rating), #21

Almost Royal (10:00)* - BBCA
0.166 million viewers, #22; 0.041 million adults 18-49 (0.03 rating), #22

[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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