Top Cable Shows (18-49) – Week of 6/14/10
By | June 25, 2010
HBO’s “True Blood” again took a big bite out of cable’s viewership among 18-49s during the week of June 14-20, with a series ep topping all other telecasts in the demo with 3.29mln to outlast History’s “Pawn Stars” (3.02mln) in the metric. ESPN’s coverage of the Slovenia-US World Cup match took 3rd with 2.86mln, an additional ep of “Pawn” (2.70mln) 4th and HBO’s “Break” (2.69mln) 5th. Back-to-back hours of WWE action on USA notched the next 2 spots with a 2.37mln avg, and completing the top 10 were USA’s “Royal Pains” (2.17), Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch” (2.13) and USA’s “Burn Notice” (2.08mln). (Data provided by Nielsen)
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| 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 | TRUE BLOOD-06/20/2010 | 26:BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN | HBOM | ……S | 9:02 PM | 55 | 2.5 | 7 | 3291 | |||
| 2 | PAWN STARS-06/14/2010 | GOLD DIGGERS | HIST | M…… | 10:30 PM | 30 | 2.3 | 7 | 3019 | |||
| 3 | WORLD CUP SOCCER L-06/18/2010 | SLOVENIA/UNITED STATES | ESPN | ….F.. | 9:25 AM | 156 | 2.2 | 17 | 2860 | |||
| 4 | PAWN STARS-06/14/2010 | WHALE OF A TIME | HIST | M…… | 10:00 PM | 30 | 2.1 | 6 | 2702 | |||
| 5 | BREAK-06/20/2010 | HBOM | ……S | 9:57 PM | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2688 | ||||
| 6 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT-06/14/2010 | WWE RAW | USA | M…… | 10:00 PM | 71 | 1.9 | 6 | 2456 | |||
| 7 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT-06/14/2010 | WWE RAW | USA | M…… | 9:00 PM | 60 | 1.7 | 5 | 2284 | |||
| 8 | ROYAL PAINS-06/17/2010 | 205 KEEPING THE FAITH | USA | …T… | 10:00 PM | 60 | 1.6 | 5 | 2167 | |||
| 9 | DEADLIEST CATCH-06/15/2010 | THE DIRTY TRUTH | DISC | .T….. | 9:00 PM | 61 | 1.6 | 5 | 2132 | |||
| 10 | BURN NOTICE-06/17/2010 | 401 MADE MAN | USA | …T… | 9:00 PM | 60 | 1.6 | 5 | 2078 | |||