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[07/03/12 - 12:29 PM]
Sunday's Cable Ratings: "BET Awards" Snaps "True Blood" Win Streak
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for sunday, july 1, 2012)

Here are the highlights of 30 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

BET Awards - BET
7.421 million viewers, #1; 4.149 million adults 18-49 (3.2 rating), #1

True Blood - HBO
4.541 million viewers, #2; 3.314 million adults 18-49 (2.6 rating), #2

Good Luck Charlie (8:00) - Disney
4.049 million viewers, #3; 0.883 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #11

Shake It Up (8:30) - Disney
3.735 million viewers, #4; 0.806 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #13

Falling Skies - TNT
3.387 million viewers, #5; 1.473 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #4

Longmire - A&E
3.266 million viewers, #6; 0.671 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #18

Army Wives - Lifetime
3.021 million viewers, #7; 1.187 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #7

Ice Road Truckers - History
2.744 million viewers, #8; 0.931 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #9

Keeping Up With the Kardashians - E!
2.673 million viewers, #9; 1.787 million adults 18-49 (1.4 rating), #3

The Glades - A&E
2.505 million viewers, #10; 0.672 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #17

BET Awards Pre-Show - BET
2.467 million viewers, #11; 1.400 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #5

Next Food Network Star (9:00) - Food
2.433 million viewers, #12; 0.989 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #8

Real Housewives of New Jersey - Bravo
2.284 million viewers, #13; 1.363 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #6

Drop Dead Diva - Lifetime
1.866 million viewers, #14; 0.798 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #15

The Newsroom - HBO
1.676 million viewers, #15; 0.921 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #10

Storage Hunters (10:00) - truTV
1.544 million viewers, #16; 0.659 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #19

Sunday Night Baseball - ESPN
1.482 million viewers, #17; 0.520 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #24

Shark Wranglers - History
1.476 million viewers, #18; 0.713 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #16

Cupcake Wars - Food
1.439 million viewers, #19; 0.653 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #20

The Great Escape - TNT
1.410 million viewers, #20; 0.799 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #14

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding (9:00) - TLC
1.231 million viewers, #21; 0.596 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #21

Mrs. Eastwood & Company (10:00) - E!
1.193 million viewers, #22; 0.845 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #12

Chef Wanted With Anne Burrell - Food
1.171 million viewers, #23; 0.423 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #27

My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding (10:00) - TLC
1.148 million viewers, #24; 0.540 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #23

Call of the Wildman (10:00) - Animal Planet
1.140 million viewers, #25; 0.482 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #25

Gator Boys - Animal Planet
1.058 million viewers, #26; 0.432 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #26

Weeds - Showtime
0.805 million viewers, #27; 0.559 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #22

Episodes - Showtime
0.486 million viewers, #28; 0.296 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #28

Mob Wives Chicago (8:00) - VH1
0.419 million viewers, #29; 0.268 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #29

Oprah's Next Chapter (8:00) - OWN
0.390 million viewers, #30; 0.168 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #30

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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