Primetime Cable Ratings: February 19, 2015

The Third season premiere of VIKINGS was Thursday night's #1 cable program, in the A18-49 ratings, drawing a 1.0 rating, along with 2.8 million viewers. That is down 23% in the demo and close to 800,000 in total viewers, from the second season premiere, last year. The premiere is a series low in viewership and ties for the second lowest demo rating. Not a good sign for the History series.

NASCAR is back and FOX Sports 1 is reaping the benefits, as the Duels collected three million viewers and a 0.7 rating in Adults 18-49. The strong showing also helped the networks FOX SPORTS LIVE program, at 10:30, as it kept 2.1 million viewers.

SMACKDOWN posted its lowest ratings since moving to Thursday nights, getting just 2.4 million viewers and a 0.7 demo rating It was down 8% in viewership and 12% in the demo, over last week's ratings.

Rank	Show	Net	Time	Viewers*	A18-49
1	NASCAR Sprint Cup	FS1	7:00 PM	3.02	0.7
2	VIKINGS	HIST	10:00 PM	2.80	1.0
3	Pawn Stars	HIST	9:30 PM	2.68	0.8
4	WWE Smackdown	SYFY	8:00 PM	2.40	0.7
5	Pawn Stars	HIST	9:00 PM	2.40	0.7
6	American Dad	ADSM	10:30 PM	2.16	0.9
7	Movie: Mulan	DSNY	8:00 PM	2.14	0.5
8	American Dad	ADSM	10:00 PM	2.14	0.9
9	FOX Sports Live	FS1	10:30 PM	2.05	0.5
10	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	1.76	0.7
11	NBA Basketball	TNT	8:15 PM	1.76	0.7
12	Law & Order: SVU	USA	9:00 PM	1.68	0.5
13	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	1.67	0.7
14	Law & Order: SVU	USA	8:00 PM	1.66	0.5
15	The Cleveland Show	ADSM	9:30 PM	1.61	0.6

* - in millions