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Sports dominated the week, taking the top five spots in the weekly rankings. With a below average performance for Monday Night Football that averaged only 9.7 million viewers, the final game of the Yankees/Rangers ALCS was tops for the week with 11.86 million viewers. Along with the Monday Night Football contest, three other ALCS games rounded out the top five.
The season two finale of Jersey Shore was the most-watched non sports program with 6.07 million viewers followed by Boy Who Cried Werewolf on Nickelodeon on Saturday night with 5.82 million.
As usual, we have already posted almost all of this data separately, as well as quite a bit of data for shows that aren't on the list below. Give our site's search feature near the top right of the site a try or our Overnight Cable TV Show Ratings category.
Top 25 Basic cable shows for the week ending October 24, 2010:
| Rank | Program | Network | Day | Time | Viewers (000) |
| 1 | YANKEES-RANGERS 6 | TBSC | Fri | 08:00P-11:18P | 11,863 |
| 2 | RANGERS-YANKEES 4 | TBSC | Tue | 08:00P-12:17A | 9,846 |
| 3 | TITANS/JAGUARS | ESPN | Mon | 08:30P-11:36P | 9,666 |
| 4 | RANGERS-YANKEES 3 | TBSC | Mon | 08:00P-11:34P | 8,214 |
| 5 | RANGERS-YANKEES 5 | TBSC | Wed | 04:00P-08:06P | 6,107 |
| 6 | Jersey Shore 2 | MTV | Thu | 10:00P-11:00P | 6,068 |
| 7 | BOY WHO CRIED WEREWOLF | NICK | Sat | 08:00P-09:50P | 5,819 |
| 8 | BOY WHO CRIED WOLF | NAN | Sun | 08:00P-08:50P | 4,986 |
| 9 | INSIDE THE MLB | TBSC | Fri | 11:18P-12:17A | 4,761 |
| 10 | BOY WHO CRIED WEREWOLF | NICK | Sun | 07:00P-08:00P | 4,650 |
| 11 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT | USA | Mon | 10:00P-11:04P | 4,531 |
| 12 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 4,416 |
| 13 | ALABAMA/TENNESSEE | ESPN | Sat | 07:00P-10:25P | 4,371 |
| 14 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Thu | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,283 |
| 15 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 09:30A-10:00A | 4,273 |
| 16 | Pawn Stars | HIST | Mon | 10:30P-11:00P | 4,247 |
| 17 | NCIS | USA | Wed | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,095 |
| 18 | KEEPING UP KARDASHIANS | EN | Sun | 10:00P-11:00P | 4,064 |
| 19 | PAWN STARS | HIST | Mon | 10:00P-10:30P | 4,038 |
| 20 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 09:00A-09:30A | 3,983 |
| 21 | NASCAR SPRINT CUP L | ESPN | Sun | 01:00P-05:05P | 3,954 |
| 22 | PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR | NICK | Sat | 10:00A-10:30A | 3,854 |
| 23 | TEEN MOM 2: CHECK UP SPC | MTV | Tue | 10:00P-12:00A | 3,719 |
| 24 | NCIS | USA | Wed | 09:00P-10:00P | 3,715 |
| 25 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 09:50P-10:00P | 3,660 |
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