The BET Awards '10, the premiere of the Disney movie 16 Wishes, and the USA v. Algeria World Cup match elbowed aside regular cable programming to top the week's cable viewership rankings.
History's Pawn Stars stayed at the top of the "regular" cable programming for the week, followed closely by the other usual cable suspects WWE Raw, Burn Notice and Royal Pains. A record setting Deadliest Catch was #7 on the week.
Betty White's Hot In Cleveland fell down to #46 in viewership with its top airing averaging 3.37 million viewers. Still huge by comparison with everything else on TV Land.
There were no True Blood results with our regular cable ratings, but I will post what I see when I see it. True Blood averaged 4.455 million and ranked #15 for the week in viewing.
ESPN World Cup ratings from the week will be online soon in a separate post.
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Top 25 cable shows for the week ending June 27, 2010:
| Rank | Shows | Net | Day | Time | Viewers Live+SD (000) |
| 1 | BET AWARDS SHOW | BET | Sun | 08:00P-11:27P | 7,356 |
| 2 | 16 WISHES | DSNY | Fri | 08:00P-09:40P | 5,608 |
| 3 | UNITED STATES/ALGERIA | ESPN | Wed | 09:30A-12:03P | 5,394 |
| 4 | Pawn Stars | HIST | Mon | 10:30P-11:00P | 5,384 |
| 5 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 10:00P-11:09P | 5,375 |
| 6 | Pawn Stars | HIST | Mon | 10:00P-10:30P | 5,375 |
| 7 | DEADLIEST CATCH | DISC | Tue | 09:00P-10:01P | 5,368 |
| 8 | Burn Notice | USA | Thu | 09:00P-10:00P | 5,333 |
| 9 | Royal Pains | USA | Thu | 10:00P-11:00P | 5,295 |
| 10 | NASCAR POST RACE SHOW | TNT | Sun | 04:08P-04:20P | 5,115 |
| 11 | SPRINT CUP RACING/LOUDON | TNT | Sun | 01:00P-04:08P | 4,909 |
| 12 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 4,871 |
| 13 | American Pickers | HIST | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 4,849 |
| 14 | NCIS | USA | Sun | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,490 |
| 15 | MEMPHIS BEAT | TNT | Tue | 10:00P-11:01P | 4,334 |
| 16 | NCIS | USA | Sun | 07:00P-08:00P | 4,259 |
| 17 | iCarly | NICK | Sat | 08:00P-08:30P | 4,191 |
| 18 | BET AWARDS 10 AFTERPARTY | BET | Sun | 11:27P-12:27A | 4,083 |
| 19 | 16 WISHES | DSNY | Sun | 09:00P-10:40P | 4,009 |
| 20 | VICTORIOUS | NICK | Sat | 09:00P-09:30P | 3,824 |
| 21 | NCIS | USA | Sat | 10:00P-11:00P | 3,804 |
| 22 | NCIS | USA | Wed | 09:00P-10:00P | 3,780 |
| 23 | NCIS | USA | Wed | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,776 |
| 24 | GERMANY/ENGLAND | ESPN | Sun | 09:30A-11:59A | 3,756 |
| 25 | SpongeBob | NICK | Wed | 05:30P-06:00P | 3,714 |
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Nielsen Ratings Data: ©2010 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. All ratings above Live+SD (live viewing plus same day DVR viewing)
