Weekly Cable Sports Ratings: March 18 - 24, 2019

It is March Madness and the cable sports chart shows just that. Just seven sports events were not the NCAA tournament and one of those seven were of the NIT Tournament. With that, 33 total events drew a million viewers, or more, with four getting over three million viewers.

With the tournament in full swing, the AAF took a big hiot in the ratings. The TNT Saturday Afternoon game performed best, with 340,000 viewers, while the two NFL Network primetime games stayed in the mid-200k range.

Rank	Day	Show	Net	Time	P2*	A18-49
1	Sat	NCAA: AUB/KAN	TBS	9:50 PM	4,622	1.51
2	Sun	NCAA: OSU/HOU	TNT	8:48 PM	3,565	1.14
3	Thu	NCAA: FL/NEV	TNT	6:45 PM	3,126	1.12
4	Fri	NCAA: IONA/NC	TNT	9:21 PM	3,013	1.04
5	Thu	NCAA: St.MARY/VIL	TBS	7:37 PM	2,906	0.96
6	Fri	NCAA: OR/WI	TBS	4:35 PM	2,750	0.85
7	Sun	NCAA: LIB/VT	TBS	7:00 PM	2,747	0.94
8	Sun	NCAA: UUCI/OR	TBS	9:34 PM	2,695	0.94
9	Fri	NCAA: OSU/ISU	TBS	9:38 PM	2,606	0.81
10	Sat	NCAA: BAY/GON	TBS	7:00 PM	2,509	0.63
11	Sun	NASCAR CUP	FS1	2:00 PM	2,455	0.36
12	Thu	NCAA: MSU/MAR	TBS	4:50 PM	2,408	0.86
13	Sat	NCAA: VIL/PUR	TNT	8:32 PM	2,271	0.71
14	Sat	NCAA: MSU/FSU	TNT	6:00 PM	2,269	0.75
15	Thu	NCAA: BAY/SYR	TRUTV	9:52 PM	2,013	0.72
16	Thu	NCAA: MON/MI	TNT	9:39 PM	1,949	0.59
17	Sun	NCAA: OK/VA	TRUTV	7:48 PM	1,859	0.55
18	Fri	NCAA: WAS/USU	TNT	6:40 PM	1,784	0.61
19	Wed	NCAA: ASU/St.John	TRUTV	9:08 PM	1,757	0.59
20	Mon	NBA: GS/SA	ESPN	8:12 PM	1,753	0.57
21	Sun	NCAA: BUF/TT	TNT	6:00 PM	1,697	0.53
22	Tue	NCAA: BEL/TEM	TRUTV	9:04 PM	1,537	0.57
23	Fri	NCAA: LIB/MSU	TRUTV	7:32 PM	1,533	0.49
24	Thu	NCAA: OD/PUR	TBS	10:05 PM	1,481	0.55
25	Wed	NBA: BOS/PHI	ESPN	7:13 PM	1,471	0.59
26	Wed	NBA: TOR/OKC	ESPN	9:44 PM	1,392	0.56
27	Fri	NCAA: GSU/HOU	TBS	7:07 PM	1,187	0.40
28	Fri	NCAA: GW/VA	TRUTV	3:05 PM	1,164	0.31
29	Mon	NBA: IN/POR	ESPN	10:37 PM	1,156	0.49
30	Thu	NCAA: NU/KAN	TNT	4:17 PM	1,139	0.34
31	Wed	NCAA: NDSU/NCC	TRUTV	6:29 PM	1,128	0.28
32	Fri	NCAA: AZ/BUF	TNT	4:02 PM	1,121	0.37
33	Fri	NCAA: UCI/KSU	TBS	1:51 PM	1,046	0.31
34	Tue	NCAA: FD/PV	TRUTV	6:32 PM	969	0.30
35	Thu	NCAA: BEL/MARY	TRUTV	3:17 PM	962	0.29
36	Fri	NCAA: STL/VT	TRUTV	10:21 PM	891	0.32
37	Thu	NCAA: NMSU/AUB	TNT	1:22 PM	883	0.26
38	Fri	Seleccion Mexico	UND	10:00 PM	835	0.35
39	Thu	NCAA: VER/FSU	TBS	1:52 PM	784	0.25
40	Sat	NIT: ARK/IU	ESPN	12:00 PM	760	0.19

* viewership (,000)