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[09/11/12 - 11:31 AM]
Sunday's Cable Ratings: "Kardashians," "Long Island Medium" Top Demos, Viewers
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for sunday, september 9, 2012)

Here are the highlights of 26 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

Long Island Medium (9:30) - TLC
3.521 million viewers, #1; 1.575 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #3

Army Wives - Lifetime
3.298 million viewers, #2; 1.225 million adults 18-49 (1.0 rating), #6

Long Island Medium (9:00) - TLC
3.177 million viewers, #3; 1.388 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #5

Breaking Amish - TLC
3.097 million viewers, #4; 1.452 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #4

Keeping Up With the Kardashians - E!
3.034 million viewers, #5; 2.051 million adults 18-49 (1.6 rating), #1

Real Housewives of New Jersey - Bravo
2.965 million viewers, #6; 1.822 million adults 18-49 (1.4 rating), #2

Austin & Ally (8:00) - Disney
2.950 million viewers, #7; 0.560 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #15

Drop Dead Diva - Lifetime
2.763 million viewers, #8; 1.172 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #7

Hell on Wheels - AMC
2.623 million viewers, #9; 0.740 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #12

Leverage (9:00) - TNT
2.194 million viewers, #10; 0.756 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #11

The Great Food Truck Race - Food
1.876 million viewers, #11; 0.894 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #9

Ice Road Truckers (10:00) - History
1.873 million viewers, #12; 0.615 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #13

Married to Jonas - E!
1.486 million viewers, #13; 0.954 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #8

Bar Rescue (9:00) - Spike TV
1.319 million viewers, #14; 0.794 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #10

Survivorman - Discovery
1.266 million viewers, #15; 0.604 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #14

Cupcake Wars - Food
1.186 million viewers, #16; 0.548 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #16

Sunday Night Baseball - ESPN
1.175 million viewers, #17; 0.430 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #19

Great Barrier Reef - Animal Planet
0.934 million viewers, #18; 0.304 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #22

One Car Too Far - Discovery
0.865 million viewers, #19; 0.428 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #20

Off the Hook: Extreme Catches (8:00) - Animal Planet
0.819 million viewers, #20; 0.397 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #21

Flip Men (10:00) - Spike TV
0.809 million viewers, #21; 0.515 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #18

Weeds - Showtime
0.692 million viewers, #22; 0.540 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #17

Oprah's Next Chapter (9:00) - OWN
0.666 million viewers, #23; 0.285 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #23

Scanning the Skies: The Discovery Channel Telescope - Discovery
0.551 million viewers, #24; 0.267 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #24

Snapped - Oxygen
0.451 million viewers, #25; 0.204 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #25

Web Therapy - Showtime
0.120 million viewers, #26; 0.085 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #26

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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