Friday September 7, 2018 Nielsen Finals

ESPN2's College Football game between TCU and MSU (not in the list below) led a very slow cable day on Friday, with a 0.33 adults 18-49 rating and 1.076 million viewers. The game scored a 0.48 rating in men 18-49 (best on cable for the day), and a 0.28 rating in males 12-34 (also best). Only NBC's 'Dateline' (0.6) had a higher rating in men 18-49. On HBO, 'Real Time with Bill Maher' took third, averaging a 0.32 rating in the key demo with 1.68 million viewers; it did a 0.46 rating in people 25-54, second on cable only to 'The Rachel Maddow Show' (0.47). Over at MTV, two episodes of 'Nick Cannon Wild N Out' were at 0.28 and 0.31 respectively in females 12-34, and at 468,000 and 502,000 in total viewers. Those F12-34 figures ranked third and fourth on cable, behind an 11pm Kevin Hart Comedy Central special (0.34, 407,000 viewers), and 7pm 'E! News' (0.33, 374,000 viewers). 'Safeword,' also on MTV, had a 0.28 rating  in F12-34 with 415,000 viewers.

Broadcast finals:

SHOW	Viewers (millions)	HH	A 18-49	A 18-34	A 25-54	Med. Age
Stand Up To Cancer (ABC)	2.046	1.4/3	0.3/2	0.2/1	0.4/2	-
What Would You Do? (ABC)	2.410	1.6/3	0.4/2	0.2/2	0.6/3	59.7
20/20 (P) (ABC)	3.430	2.3/5	0.6/3	0.3/2	0.9/4	59.9
Stand Up To Cancer (CBS)	1.888	1.3/3	0.3/2	0.2/1	0.4/2	-
TKO: Total Knock Out (CBS)	1.631	1.1/2	0.4/2	0.2/1	0.5/2	57.5
Stand Up To Cancer (NBC)	2.017	1.4/3	0.4/2	0.2/2	0.5/2	-
Dateline (NBC)	4.447	3.0/6	0.7/4	0.4/3	1.1/5	61.0
Stand Up To Cancer (Fox)	1.008	0.7/1	0.3/2	0.2/1	0.4/2	-

Subdemos:

SHOW	F 18-49	M 18-49	F 18-34	M 18-34	F 25-54	M 25-54
Stand Up To Cancer (ABC)	0.4/2	0.3/2	0.2/1	0.1/1	0.5/2	0.3/1
What Would You Do? (ABC)	0.5/2	0.4/2	0.3/2	0.2/1	0.7/3	0.5/2
20/20 (P) (ABC)	0.8/4	0.4/2	0.4/3	0.2/2	1.2/5	0.6/2
Stand Up To Cancer (CBS)	0.3/2	0.2/1	0.2/1	0.2/1	0.4/2	0.3/2
TKO: Total Knock Out (CBS)	0.4/2	0.4/2	0.1/1	0.2/2	0.5/2	0.5/2
Stand Up To Cancer (NBC)	0.4/2	0.3/2	0.3/2	0.1/1	0.6/2	0.5/2
Dateline (NBC)	0.9/4	0.6/3	0.5/3	0.2/2	1.4/5	0.8/4
Stand Up To Cancer (Fox)	0.3/2	0.2/1	0.2/1	0.1/1	0.4/2	0.3/1

Cable finals:
'Stand Up For Cancer' totaled 1.079 million viewers on the 22 Nielsen-rated cable networks it aired on. It also aired on the following channels/platforms which are not rated by Nielsen: DirectTV, Bloomberg, Epix, FM, and Hulu. On the broadcast side, it averaged 6.959 million viewers across ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX. Ratings for the telecast on Ion were unavailable. Overall, across the 26 rated-networks, the special totaled 8.038 million viewers. 

SHOW	CHANNEL	18-49	Viewers (000)
RACHEL MADDOW SHOW	MSNBC	0.33	3,201
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER	HBO PRIME	0.32	1,681
DINERS, DRIVE INS & DIVES	FOOD NETWORK	0.29	1,079
TENNIS: MENS SEMIFINAL	ESPN	0.28	1,222
NICK CANNON WILD N OUT 12	MTV	0.28	502
LIVE PD AC	A&E NETWORK	0.27	956
HOUSE HUNTERS INTL	HGTV	0.26	1,257
NICK CANNON WILD N OUT 12	MTV	0.26	468
HOUSE HUNTERS	HGTV	0.25	1,274
KILLER CLOSER, THE	ID	0.24	950
TINY PARADISE	HGTV	0.24	1,297
SAFEWORD SSN 2	MTV	0.23	415
BATTLEBOTS	DISCOVERY	0.22	1,026
TREASURE QUEST: SNAKE	DISCOVERY	0.20	855
TREEHOUSE MASTERS	ANIMAL PLANET	0.17	721
IN SEARCH OF	HISTORY	0.17	1,010
DEAD FILES	TRAVEL CHANNEL	0.16	548
SCALED	ANIMAL PLANET	0.15	460
MARRIAGE BOOT CAMP: RS	WETV	0.15	453
THOMAS AND FRIENDS	NICKELODEON	0.13	527
STAND UP TO CANCER 2018	E!	0.13	236
PAYNES	OWN	0.11	449
WYNONNA EARP	SYFY	0.11	496
KILLJOYS	SYFY	0.10	482
KINDRED SPIRITS	TRAVEL CHANNEL	0.09	340
BATTLE TESTED	DISCOVERY	0.09	367
TEXAS FLIP AND MOVE	DIY NETWORK	0.07	501
VICE	HBO PRIME	0.07	226
DAVID TUTERA CELEBRATIONS	WETV	0.06	258
ELEAGUE	TBS NETWORK	0.06	160
ANIMALS.	HBO PRIME	0.05	166
STEP UP	HBO PRIME	0.05	147
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	FREEFORM	0.05	119
SWEET VIRGINIA	SHOWTIME PRIME	0.05	146
STAND UP 2 CANCER	TNT	0.04	177
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	HBO PRIME	0.03	73
RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS	HBO PRIME	0.03	110
OUTCAST	CINEMAX	0.03	117
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	BRAVO	0.02	68
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	FXM	0.02	30
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	MTV2	0.02	38
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	DISCOVERY LIFE	0.01	13
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	FYI	0.01	43
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	REELZCHANNEL	0.01	33
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	GALAVISION	0.01	20
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	AHC	0.00	18
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	DEST AMERICA	0.00	22
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	DISCOVERY FAMILY	0.00	14
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	ESPNEWS	0.00	21
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	FOX SPORTS 2	0.00	8
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	GAC	0.00	19
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	LOGO	0.00	13
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	STARZ	0.00	22
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	SHOWTIME PRIME	0.00	36
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	SMITHSONIAN	0.00	14
STAND UP TO CANCER LIVE	WGN AMERICA	0.00	42

Source: Nielsen Media Research