Ratings Plummet for NCAA Championship After Its Move to Cable

Even though the game was an all-time classic

At the beginning of the 2016 NCAA Tournament, Turner Broadcasting president David Levy claimed the difference between broadcast and cable "is almost nonexistent anymore."

However, despite a national championship game that will go down as a classic—Villanova defeated North Carolina on Kris Jenkins' three-pointer as the clock expired—the NCAA title game averaged 10 million fewer viewers than last year.

This was also the first year the title game aired on cable TV.

Monday night's game averaged 17.8

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