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NEW YORK (AP) — Turner Sports says its NCAA basketball coverage received the highest rating for Saturday regional finals in 10 years.
Kentucky's 68-66 victory over Notre Dame got an 8.4 fast national rating and 16 share from Nielsen Media Research, which the network said Sunday was the top overnight for a college basketball game on cable television. It drew 14.7 million viewers on TBS, the most for a program in the network's history
Wisconsin's 85-78 victory over Arizona received a 5.2/11 and 8.8 million viewers, and the combined average of 6.8/13 was the highest for Saturday regional finals since a 7.8/16 for two overtime games in 2005, Louisville vs. West Virginia and Illinois vs. Arizona.
Turner says the tournament is averaging a 6.3/14 on TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV, up 3 percent from last year and the highest since 1998.
The rating is the percentage of television households tuned to a program, and the share is the percentage watching a program among those homes with TVs on at the time.
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