With live cable football over for the season, 18-49s (Live+SD) preferred WWE content on USA during the week of Jan 4-10, as 2 hours of grappling averaged 2.88mln in the demo. E!’s “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” (2.59mln) ensued, and MTV’s “Jersey Shore” (2.30mln) and ABC Family’s “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” (2.12mln) filled out the top 5. 3 eps of “Family Guy” on Adult Swim notched 6th, 8th and 10th and averaged 1.8mln 18-49s, while TNT’s telecast of feature film “Shooter” (1.84mln) and ESPN’s Sat night “NFL Countdown” (1.77mln) polished off the elite 10. (Data provided by Nielsen)

01/04/2010-01/10/2010
TOTAL-01/04/2010
RANK TELECASTS EPISODE TITLE ORIG DAY(S) S TIME R DUR P18-49 P18-49 P18-49
Live+SD US AA% Live+SD US SHR Live+SD AA(000)
1 WWE ENTERTAINMENT-01/04/2010 WWE RAW USA M…… 10:00 PM 69 2.3 6 2981
2 WWE ENTERTAINMENT-01/04/2010 WWE RAW USA M…… 9:00 PM 60 2.1 5 2780
3 KEEPING UP KARDASHIANS-01/10/2010 405 ENT ……S 10:00 PM 30 2 5 2593
4 JERSEY SHORE-01/07/2010 106 MTV …T… 10:00 PM 60 1.8 4 2303
5 SECRET LIFE/AMERICAN TEEN-01/04/2010 213 YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUVE GOT FAM M…… 8:00 PM 61 1.6 4 2119
6 FAMILY GUY-01/04/2010 ADSM M…… 11:30 PM 30 1.4 5 1868
7 TNT BIG PICTURE MOVIES-01/10/2010 SHOOTER TNT ……S 8:00 PM 135 1.4 3 1835
8 FAMILY GUY-01/05/2010 ADSM .T….. 11:30 PM 30 1.3 5 1774
9 NFL COUNTDOWN L-01/10/2010 ESPN ……S 11:00 AM 120 1.3 7 1765
10 FAMILY GUY-01/06/2010 ADSM ..W…. 11:30 PM 30 1.3 5 1764

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