Last Monday's Monday Night Football contest where Brett Favre led his new team, the Minnesota Vikings to victory over his old team the Green Bay Packers set a record for the most-watched broadcast on cable television (edging out a MNF game last year) with 21.839 million viewers.
Next up was lots of MLB baseball on TBS led by the first game of the Twins/Yankees series. Sadly for TBS, three out of four series went the minimum of three games. Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place had a few more viewers than Monk on Friday night. The season finale of Army Wives averaged 3.931 million viewers and came in 22nd (it came in 18th based on household rating though)
My new favorite show, Sons Of Anarchy was pushed off the the list by all the baseball and was number 29 with 3.656 million
Sadly, I've made the decision to no longer field requests. We always post whatever data we see via press release or other trade publications already. You can subscribe to our RSS feed and you can also follow @TravisYanan on Twitter. During the week he usually posts some (not all) cable results for each weekday, usually late in the afternoon on the east coast (and Friday night data isn't posted until Monday) and he posts the links to that info on his Twitter account to the info on Marc Berman's PI Forums.
Top 25 cable shows for the week ending October 11, 2009:
| Rank | Shows | NET | DAY | Time | Households (000) | Viewers Live+SD (000) |
| 1 | NFL REGULAR SEASON L (PACKERS/VIKINGS) | ESPN | MONDAY | 8:30 PM | 13.2 | 21,839 |
| 2 | MLB DIVISION SERIES (YANKEES-TWINS 3) | TBSC | SUNDAY | 7:00 PM | 4.1 | 6,791 |
| 3 | MLB DIVISION SERIES (TWINS-YANKEES 1) | TBSC | WEDNESDAY | 6:00 PM | 4.3 | 6,607 |
| 4 | MLB WILDCARD (TIGERS-TWINS) | TBSC | TUESDAY | 5:00 PM | 4.2 | 6,543 |
| 5 | MLB DIVISION SERIES (TWINS-YANKEES 2) | TBSC | FRIDAY | 6:00 PM | 4.1 | 6,484 |
| 6 | SPORTSCENTER: L | ESPN | MONDAY | 11:56 PM | 3.6 | 5,211 |
| 7 | MLB DIVISION SERIES (CARDINALS-DODGERS 2) | TBSC | THURSDAY | 6:19 PM | 3.5 | 5,175 |
| 8 | MLB DIVISION SERIES (RED SOX-Angels 2) | TBSC | FRIDAY | 10:34 PM | 3.3 | 5,069 |
| 9 | MLB DIVISION SERIES (CARDINALS-DODGERS 1) | TBSC | WEDNESDAY | 9:51 PM | 3.3 | 4,973 |
| 10 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT (WWE Raw) | USA | MONDAY | 10:00 PM | 2.8 | 4,756 |
| 11 | MLB GAME BREAK | TBSC | THURSDAY | 9:23 PM | 3.2 | 4,706 |
| 12 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT (WWE Raw) | USA | MONDAY | 9:00 PM | 2.9 | 4,655 |
| 13 | WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE | DSNY | FRIDAY | 8:00 PM | 2.8 | 4,604 |
| 14 | MONDAY NIGHT COUNTDOWN L | ESPN | MONDAY | 7:00 PM | 3.0 | 4,540 |
| 15 | MLB DIVISION SERIES (RED SOX-Angels 1) | TBSC | THURSDAY | 9:30 PM | 3.0 | 4,437 |
| 16 | NCIS | USA | WEDNESDAY | 8:00 PM | 3.0 | 4,437 |
| 17 | MONK | USA | FRIDAY | 9:00 PM | 2.8 | 4,371 |
| 18 | MLB DIVISION SERIES (PHILLIES-ROCKIES 3) | TBSC | SUNDAY | 10:40 PM | 2.7 | 4,084 |
| 19 | MLB DIVISION SERIES (DODGERS-CARDINALS 3) | TBSC | SATURDAY | 6:00 PM | 2.6 | 4,021 |
| 20 | NCIS | USA | WEDNESDAY | 9:00 PM | 2.6 | 3,938 |
| 21 | SpongeBob | NICK | SATURDAY | 9:30 AM | 2.6 | 3,932 |
| 22 | ARMY WIVES | LIF | SUNDAY | 10:00 PM | 2.7 | 3,931 |
| 23 | COLL FTBALL-FRI PRIME L (NEBRASKA/MISSOURI) | ESPN | THURSDAY | 8:55 PM | 2.4 | 3,798 |
| 24 | SUITE LIFE ON DECK | DSNY | FRIDAY | 8:30 PM | 2.4 | 3,771 |
| 25 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXNC | THURSDAY | 8:00 PM | 2.5 | 3,765 |
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Nielsen Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. All ratings above Live+SD (live viewing plus same day DVR viewing)
