NCAA tournament's first Sunday earns highest television rating in 20 years
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The NCAA tournament's first Sunday has earned its highest television rating in 20 years.
The third-round games Sunday on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV averaged a 7.6 overnight household rating and 15 share, the highest rating since 1993. That year, the rating was 8.5 and 20 share.
The networks say that's up 19 percent from 2012.
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This is the third season of CBS and Turner's 14-year, $10.8 billion contract to televise every game of the tournament in its entirety.
Ratings represent the percentage of all homes with televisions tuned to a program. Shares represent the percentage of all homes with TVs in use at the time.