select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for wednesday, september 14, 2011)

Here are the highlights of 25 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

Storage Wars (10:30) (4.446 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.9, #1)

Necessary Roughness (4.007 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.2, #3)

Sons of Guns (2.950 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.4, #2)

Restaurant: Impossible (1.925 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.8, #T4)

Dance Moms (1.759 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.8, #T4)

Paranormal Witness (1.632 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T10)

Operation Repo (9:30) (1.629 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T10)

Deadliest Warrior (10:00) (1.582 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T6)

Ghost Hunters (1.557 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T6)

Melissa & Joey (8:30) (1.394 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T6)

Scammed (1.343 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T12)

Melissa & Joey (8:00) (1.269 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T6)

Toddlers & Tiaras (1.238 million viewers, #13; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T12)

Deadliest Warrior (9:00) (1.168 million viewers, #14; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T12)

Hulk Hogan's MCW (0.999 million viewers, #15; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T15)

Top Chef: Just Desserts (0.942 million viewers, #16; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T15)

Dude, What Would Happen (0.895 million viewers, #17; adults 18-49: 0.1, #T21)

Destroy Build Destroy (0.848 million viewers, #18; adults 18-49: 0.1, #T21)

I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant (8:30) (0.610 million viewers, #19; adults 18-49: 0.2, #T19)

E! Special: Fatal Honeymoons (0.602 million viewers, #20; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T17)

E! Investigates: A Designer's Downfall (0.552 million viewers, #21; adults 18-49: 0.2, #T19)

I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant (8:00) (0.522 million viewers, #22; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T17)

Confessions: Animal Hoarding (10:00) (0.339 million viewers, #23; adults 18-49: 0.1, #T21)

Inside the NFL (0.220 million viewers, #24; adults 18-49: 0.1, #T21)

Inside NASCAR (0.043 million viewers, #25; adults 18-49: 0.0, #25)

Source: Nielsen Media Research