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BRAVO MEDIA'S "BELOW DECK" EARNS HIGHEST-RATED SEASON PREMIERE IN SERIES HISTORY WITH 1.6 MILLION TOTAL VIEWERS

NEW YORK - August 31, 2015 -Last Tuesday night's season three premiere of Bravo Media's "Below Deck" delivered 1.6 million total viewers, over 1 million P25-54 and 850,000 P18-49, according to Nielsen Live+3 data. This marked the highest-rated season premiere of the series among all key demos. The episode was up seven percent, 15 percent and four percent, respectively, from the prior season premiere (08/12/14).

Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, September 1 at 9pm ET/PT as Rocky and Emile are disciplined for their dangerous stunt and Kate is intent on making sure Rocky atones for her mistake. Meanwhile, Connie gets some terrible news that leaves her future on the boat in jeopardy. Kate soon realizes that there might be too many cooks in the kitchen after she and Chef Leon disagree over the charter guests' final dinner. For a sneak peek, go to: http://www.bravotv.com/below-deck/season-3/ep-2-off-the-radar

The series is produced by 51 Minds with Mark Cronin, Courtland Cox and Nadine Rajabi serving as executive producers and Rebecca Henning as co-executive producer.

Source: Nielsen Media Research, Live+3 data.

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