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[03/14/12 - 06:36 PM]
Tuesday's Cable Ratings: "Tosh.0" Holds Onto Demo Crown
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for tuesday, march 13, 2012)

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

Storage Wars: Texas (10:30) - A&E
3.126 million viewers, #1; 1.443 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #3

Storage Wars: Texas (10:00) - A&E
2.997 million viewers, #2; 1.396 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #4

The Game - BET
2.392 million viewers, #3; 1.559 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #2

Tosh.0 - Comedy Central
2.386 million viewers, #4; 1.694 million adults 18-49 (1.3 rating), #1

Justified - FX
2.262 million viewers, #5; 1.143 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #9

Top Gear - History
2.218 million viewers, #6; 1.236 million adults 18-49 (1.0 rating), #6

Dance Moms - Lifetime
2.206 million viewers, #7; 1.188 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #7

Real Housewives of Orange County - Bravo
2.101 million viewers, #8; 1.335 million adults 18-49 (1.0 rating), #5

Chopped - Food
1.932 million viewers, #9; 1.086 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #10

Let's Stay Together - BET
1.799 million viewers, #10; 1.143 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #8

Southland - TNT
1.760 million viewers, #11; 0.795 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #14

Switched at Birth - ABC Family
1.703 million viewers, #12; 0.981 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #11

Level Up - Cartoon
1.510 million viewers, #13; 0.226 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #20

Top Shot - History
1.420 million viewers, #14; 0.829 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #13

Key & Peele - Comedy Central
1.409 million viewers, #15; 0.977 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #12

Tabatha Takes Over - Bravo
1.232 million viewers, #16; 0.787 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #15

NCAA: BYU vs. Iona - truTV
1.120 million viewers, #17; 0.613 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #16

19 Kids & Counting (9:00) - TLC
1.057 million viewers, #18; 0.421 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #19

The Bates Family: Baby Makes 19 - TLC
1.020 million viewers, #19; 0.436 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #18

NCAA: Mississippi Valley St. vs. Western Kentucky - truTV
0.977 million viewers, #20; 0.438 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #17

Wild Serengeti - Animal Planet
0.751 million viewers, #21; 0.179 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #21

My Super Psycho Sweet 16 3 - MTV
0.442 million viewers, #22; 0.156 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #23

Beyond Belief on OWN - OWN
0.351 million viewers, #23; 0.165 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #22

Jersey Couture (10:00) - Oxygen
0.242 million viewers, #24; 0.123 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #24

Jersey Couture (10:30) - Oxygen
0.204 million viewers, #25; 0.096 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #25

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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