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By | May 15, 2009
NBA playoff hoops ran all other cable programming into the ground among 18-49s (Live+SD) during the week of May 4-10, as 7 games on TNT and 1 on ESPN took the week’s 1st 8 spots. TNT’s games were led by a Rockets-Lakers scrum that garnered 3.94mln in the demo, and averaged 2.87mln. ESPN’s tilt attracted 3.42mln. 2 hours of WWE action on USA completed the lopsided top 10 with a 2.2mln avg.
(Data provided by Nielsen)
| 05/04/2009-05/10/2009 | ||||||||||||
| TOTAL-05/04/2009 | ||||||||||||
| RANK | TELECASTS | EPISODE TITLE | ORIG | DAY(S) | S TIME | R DUR | P18-49 | P18-49 | P18-49 | |||
| Live+SD US AA% | Live+SD US SHR | Live+SD AA(000) | ||||||||||
| 1 | NBA PLAYOFFS-05/06/2009 | ROCKETS/LAKERS | TNT | ..W…. | 10:43 PM | 170 | 3 | 11 | 3944 | |||
| 2 | NBA PLAYOFFS-05/04/2009 | ROCKETS/LAKERS | TNT | M…… | 10:46 PM | 163 | 2.7 | 10 | 3502 | |||
| 3 | NBA PLAYOFFS-CONF SEMIS L-05/08/2009 | LAKERS/ROCKETS | ESPN | ….F.. | 9:51 PM | 154 | 2.6 | 9 | 3419 | |||
| 4 | NBA PLAYOFFS-05/10/2009 | CELTICS/MAGIC | TNT | ……S | 8:06 PM | 174 | 2.1 | 6 | 2814 | |||
| 5 | NBA PLAYOFFS-05/05/2009 | MAVERICKS/NUGGETS | TNT | .T….. | 10:51 PM | 169 | 1.9 | 7 | 2516 | |||
| 6 | NBA PLAYOFFS-05/05/2009 | HAWKS/CAVALIERS | TNT | .T….. | 8:00 PM | 171 | 1.9 | 5 | 2452 | |||
| 7 | NBA PLAYOFFS-05/04/2009 | MAGIC/CELTICS | TNT | M…… | 8:00 PM | 166 | 1.9 | 5 | 2442 | |||
| 8 | NBA PLAYOFFS-05/06/2009 | MAGIC/CELTICS | TNT | ..W…. | 8:00 PM | 163 | 1.8 | 5 | 2426 | |||
| 9 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT-05/04/2009 | WWE RAW | USA | M…… | 10:00 PM | 71 | 1.7 | 5 | 2306 | |||
| 10 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT-05/04/2009 | WWE RAW | USA | M…… | 9:00 PM | 60 | 1.6 | 4 | 2090 | |||