The third episode of The Ultimate Fighter 24 premiered last night on FS1 and the show featured Adam Antolin advancing to the quarterfinals of the flyweight tournament with a stoppage victory against Damacio Page.
According to Nielson sources, the show drew 441,000 viewers in the preliminary ratings (Live+SD) and this is up seventeen percent from last week’s preliminary viewership number of 347,000 viewers.
When it came to the competition on cable, the night was won by American Horror Story on FX (10 p.m. ET) with 5.137 million viewers. Other top shows on cable in the 10 p.m. ET hour included The Big Bang Theory on TBS and South Park on Comedy Central.
The +3 DVR viewership for Wednesday night’s episode on The Ultimate Fighter 24 will be released by Nielson on Tuesday and the complete ratings history for this season of the UFC reality show is below.
Episode 1: Live+SD – 370k, +3 DVR – 634k
Episode 2: Live+SD – 347k, +3 DVR – 601k
Episode 3: Live+SD – 441k, +3 DVR – Available next week