USA turned in a dominant performance in cable time-shifted viewership (live+7) differential during the week of Jan 19-25—alone on the medal podium were originals “Burn Notice” (1.85mln), “Psych” (1.60mln) and “Monk” (1.49mln). Bravo’s “Top Chef” (1.20mln) and TNT’s “Leverage” (1.16mln) completed the top 5. Ensuing were ABC Family’s “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” (1.07mln) and Sci Fi’s “Battlestar Galactica” (1.03mln), then Cartoon Net’s “Star Wars-Clone Wars” (871K). CNN’s coverage of Pres Obama’s inauguration speech (805K) and Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” (787K) completed the list.   

01/19/2009-01/25/2009
TOTAL-01/19/2009
RANK TELECASTS EPISODE TITLE ORIG DAY(S) S TIME R DUR P2+ P2+ P2+ P2+ Absolute Diff
Live US AA% Live+7 US AA% Live AA(000) Live+7 AA(000)
1 BURN NOTICE-01/22/2009 210 DO NOT HARM USA …T… 10:00 PM 60 1.6 2.2 4633 6482 1849
2 PSYCH-01/23/2009 3012 EARTH, WIND AND.WAIT FOR IT USA ….F.. 10:00 PM 60 1.2 1.7 3466 5069 1603
3 MONK-01/23/2009 7014 MR MONK/LADY NEXT DOOR USA ….F.. 9:00 PM 60 1.5 2.1 4474 5963 1489
4 TOP CHEF-01/21/2009 509 RESTAURANT WARS BRVO ..W…. 10:00 PM 75 0.8 1.2 2318 3516 1198
5 LEVERAGE-01/20/2009 105 MILE HIGH JOB, THE TNT .T….. 10:00 PM 60 0.9 1.3 2521 3681 1160
6 SECRET LIFE/AMERICAN TEEN-01/19/2009 114 THE FATHER & THE SON FAM M…… 8:00 PM 60 1.2 1.5 3400 4468 1068
7 BATTLSTR GALACTICA (ORIG)-01/23/2009 414H A DISQUIET THAT FOLLOWS MY SOUL SCIFI ….F.. 10:00 PM 60 0.5 0.8 1314 2344 1030
8 STAR WARS:CLONE WARS-01/23/2009 EPISODE 14 TOON ….F.. 9:00 PM 30 0.7 1 1901 2772 871
9 OBAMA INAUG OATH/SPEECH-01/20/2009 CNN .T….. 12:05 PM 22 2.8 3 7984 8789 805
10 DAILY SHOW-01/20/2009 JAN20,09 CMDY .T….. 10:59 PM 31 0.8 1 2249 3036 787

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