Jersey Shore continued its dominance over cable with the week's top program. As Howard Cosell might have said, you can't stop it, you can only hope to contain it.
Both telecasts of WWE Monday Night Raw, Nickelodeon's movie The Best Player, SpongeBob and the Lakers/Heat game rounded out the top 10.
Top 25 Basic cable shows for the week ending March 13, 2011:
| Rank | Program | Network | Day | Time | Viewers (000) |
| 1 | JERSEY SHORE 2B | MTV | Thu | 10:00P-11:00P | 7,200 |
| 2 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 5,844 |
| 3 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT | USA | Mon | 10:00P-11:12P | 5,726 |
| 4 | BEST PLAYER, THE | NICK | Sat | 08:00P-09:50P | 5,301 |
| 5 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 10:30A-11:00A | 4,888 |
| 6 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 11:00A-11:30A | 4,874 |
| 7 | LAKERS/HEAT | TNT | Thu | 07:15P-09:51P | 4,844 |
| 8 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 10:00A-10:30A | 4,413 |
| 9 | SPONGEBOB | NICK | Sat | 09:00A-09:30A | 4,289 |
| 10 | SPONGEBOB | NICK | Sat | 09:30A-10:00A | 4,286 |
| 11 | FINDING NEMO | DSNY | Thu | 08:00P-09:50P | 4,105 |
| 12 | NCIS | USA | Mon | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,078 |
| 13 | AMERICAN PICKERS | HIST | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 3,988 |
| 14 | BEST PLAYER, THE | NICK | Sun | 06:00P-07:50P | 3,880 |
| 15 | WHITE COLLAR | USA | Tue | 10:00P-11:00P | 3,808 |
| 16 | Wizards of Waverly Place | DSNY | Fri | 08:00P-08:30P | 3,740 |
| 17 | T.U.F.F. PUPPY | NICK | Sat | 11:30A-12:00P | 3,724 |
| 18 | NCIS | USA | Mon | 07:00P-08:00P | 3,720 |
| 19 | TEEN MOM II | MTV | Tue | 10:00P-11:00P | 3,710 |
| 20 | GAME, THE S4 | BET | Tue | 10:00P-10:30P | 3,689 |
| 21 | CNN NEWSROOM | CNN | Fri | 11:00A-12:00P | 3,617 |
| 22 | SPONGEBOB | NICK | Sun | 11:00A-11:30A | 3,606 |
| 23 | PAWN STARS | HIST | Mon | 08:30P-09:00P | 3,564 |
| 24 | Chopped | FOOD | Sun | 09:00P-10:00P | 3,529 |
| 25 | SPONGEBOB | NICK | Thu | 03:30P-04:00P | 3,519 |
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