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[11/15/10 - 02:43 PM]
Friday's Cable Ratings: "Smackdown" Takes Adults 18-49 Belt
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for friday, november 12, 2010)

Here are the highlights of 16 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

Wizards of Waverly Place (4.108 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T2)

Avalon High (3.850 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T2)

WWE Smackdown (2.696 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 0.9, #1)

ESPN2 College Football (2.063 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T5)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (1.764 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T10)

ESPN NBA Game #2 (1.669 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T2)

Generator Rex (1.666 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T14)

Sym-Bionic Titan (1.577 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T14)

Sanctuary (1.574 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T7)

ESPN NBA Game #1 (1.440 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T5)

What Not to Wear (9:00) (1.394 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T10)

Swamp Loggers (1.351 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T7)

What Not to Wear (10:00) (1.350 million viewers, #13; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T7)

Conspiracy Theory (1.193 million viewers, #14; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T10)

Real Time With Bill Maher (1.120 million viewers, #15; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T14)

The Soup (0.829 million viewers, #16; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T10)

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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