The ratings are in for the Spike TV portion of the UFC 131: Carwin vs. dos Santos event. According to Spike TV officials, the preliminary fights earned a 1.0 household rating. Specifically, they pulled a 1.30 in men 18 to 49 and 1.34 in men 18 to 34. The average audience for the hour-long program (beginning at 8pm ET) was 1.6 million viewers.
UFC 131 Preliminary Card Fights On Spike TV Pull 1.6 Million Viewers
Among basic cable networks, Spike ranked first for both aforementioned demographics in that time period. The quarter hour total viewers are as follows:
8 pm ET to 8:15 pm ET: 1,258,000
8:16 pm ET to 8:30 pm ET: 1,457,000
8:31 pm ET to 8:45 pm ET: 1,728,000
8:46 pm ET to 9:00 pm ET: 1,767,000
These numbers are up from UFC 130 and historically a strong showing for the program:
- 1) UFC 126 (February 2011): 2 million viewers
- 2) UFC 109 (February 2010): 1.7 million
- 3) UFC 114 (May 2010): 1.6 million
- 4) UFC 129 (April 2010): 1.5 million
- 4) UFC 108 (January 2010): 1.5 million
- 4) UFC 121 (October 2010): 1.5 million
- 4) UFC 123 (November 2010): 1.5 million
- 8) UFC 104 (October 2009): 1.4 million
- 8) UFC 103 (September 2009): 1.4 million
- 10) UFC 128 (March 2011): 1.3 million
- 10) UFC 119 (September 2010): 1.3 million
- 10) UFC 116 (July 2010): 1.3 million
- 10) UFC 115 (June 2010): 1.3 million
- 10) UFC 106 (November 2009): 1.3 million
- 15) UFC 111 (March 2010): 1.2 million
- 16) UFC 118 (August 2010): 1.1 million
- 17) UFC 125 (January 2011): 829,000* (on Ion TV)
- 18) UFC 127 (February 2011): 714,000* (on Ion TV)
- 19) UFC 130 (May 2011): 1.3 million
- 20) UFC 131 (June 2011): 1.6 million
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