The fourth episode of The Ultimate Fighter 19 premiered last Wednesday night on Fox Sports 1 and featured Dhiego Lima submitting Tim Williams with a rear-naked choke late in the second round. 
According to Nielsen sources, last night’s preliminary viewership for the show landed at 438,000 total viewers.
This is up 4 percent from last week’s episode and in the very important demographic numbers, the show drew a .39 in Persons 18-49, .60 Men 18-49, and .58 Men 18-34.
Through four episodes, the preliminary average viewership is 443,500 and this number is much better than the 214,000 average that The Ultimate Fighters Nations had at the beginning of the year. Also, this is the second straight week that viewership has increased after the second episode drew 320,000.
When it came to the competition, the night was dominated by the NBA Playoff games on TNT. The first game of the doubleheader drew 3.9 million, while the second game has 6.1 million. Other top cable programs last night included The Big Bang Theory on TBS (2.5 million), and Catfish on MTV (2 million).
The complete history of The Ultimate Fighter 19 Ratings are below
Episode 1: 595,000
Episode 2: 320,000
Episode 3: 421,000
Episode 4: 438,000
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