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Top 100 Primetime Cable: Dec 29, 2014 - Jan 4, 2015

Football! Football!! Football!!! That is what most of cable viewers watched over the final holiday week of 2014. Between the College Bowl games, the College playoff games and the NFL, football programming took the top 11 spots. All of those spots were owned by ESPN. And that is why they can command over $6 per subscriber, from the cable companies, just for the flagship channel.

The two New Year's Day playoff games, featuring the schools of Oregon, Ohio State, Alabama and Florida State, attracted and kept over 28 million viewers, on ESPN, for over seven straight hours. The A18-49 ratings did fluctuate by little more than a half a point, but when you are in the 8 to 9 point range, that is not a huge issue. The title game is this Monday. January 12th, on ESPN.

After football, the cable chart starts to look somewhat normal. GOLD RUSH is the top program, after the football games, ranking 12th and pulling in over 4.4 million viewers. It was also was easily the top reality program, beating THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA by more than a million viewers.

MAJOR CRIMES (#13) was the top scripted series, hauling in 4.4 million viewers, for TNT. The Network had the only two original cable scripted shows, in the top 25.

TBS and reruns of THE BIG BANG THEORY littered the chart with 29 episodes hitting within the top 100. That is nearly one-third of the chart, for the single series.

Rank Day Show Net Time Viewers* A18-49
1 Thu College Football Playoffs ESPN 9:00 PM 28.27 8.9
2 Thu College Studio Show ESPN 9:00 PM 28.18 8.7
3 Thu College Football Playoffs ESPN 5:15 PM 28.16 8.3
4 Sat NFL Wildcard (CAR v ARZ) ESPN 4:15 PM 21.68 6.9
5 Wed Orange Bowl ESPN 8:15 PM 8.94 2.6
6 Wed Bowl Studio Show ESPN 8:15 PM 8.23 2.5
7 Wed Bowl Studio Show ESPN 8:00 PM 8.13 2.5
8 Tue College Bowl Game ESPN 6:30 PM 6.41 1.9
9 Mon College Bowl Game ESPN 9:00 PM 5.76 1.8
10 Fri Alamo Bowl ESPN 6:45 PM 5.60 1.5
11 Mon College Bowl Game ESPN 6:00 PM 4.90 1.5
12 Fri Gold Rush DISC 9:00 PM 4.44 1.5
13 Mon Major Crimes TNT 9:00 PM 4.43 0.7
14 Fri Cactus Bowl ESPN 10:30 PM 4.03 1.1
15 Mon WWE Raw USA 10:00 PM 3.73 1.3
16 Sun The Librarians TNT 8:00 PM 3.73 1.0
17 Tue The Big Bang Theory TBS 9:30 PM 3.63 1.2
18 Fri Movie: Finding Nemo DSNY 8:00 PM 3.51 1.0
19 Mon WWE Raw USA 9:00 PM 3.48 1.1
20 Tue The Big Bang Theory TBS 9:00 PM 3.45 1.1
21 Sun The Real Housewives/ATL BRVO 8:00 PM 3.36 1.6
22 Tue The Big Bang Theory TBS 8:30 PM 3.25 1.1
23 Tue College Bowl Game ESPN 10:00 PM 3.24 1.0
24 Mon WWE Raw USA 8:00 PM 3.17 1.1
25 Fri Alaskan Bush People DISC 10:00 PM 3.13 1.0
26 Sun Alaska: The Last Frontier DISC 9:00 PM 3.08 0.8
27 Sun The Big Bang Theory TBS 9:30 PM 3.02 1.1
28 Fri The Big Bang Theory TBS 9:30 PM 2.94 1.0
29 Sun The Big Bang Theory TBS 9:00 PM 2.92 1.0
30 Fri The Big Bang Theory TBS 9:00 PM 2.81 1.0
31 Tue High School Musical 3 DSNY 8:00 PM 2.80 0.4
32 Sun The Big Bang Theory TBS 10:00 PM 2.79 1.0
33 Sun The Big Bang Theory TBS 8:30 PM 2.66 0.9
34 Mon High School Musical 2 DSNY 8:00 PM 2.66 0.4
35 Thu NCIS USA 8:00 PM 2.64 0.5
36 Sun The Big Bang Theory TBS 10:30 PM 2.62 1.0
37 Fri WWE Smackdown SYFY 8:00 PM 2.58 0.7
38 Tue The Big Bang Theory TBS 8:00 PM 2.57 0.8
39 Sat The Big Bang Theory TBS 9:30 PM 2.54 0.9
40 Thu NCIS USA 9:00 PM 2.53 0.4
41 Mon Street Outlaws DISC 9:00 PM 2.50 1.0
42 Tue Moonshiners DISC 9:00 PM 2.49 0.8
43 Thu NCIS USA 10:00 PM 2.48 0.5
44 Tue Little Couple TLC 9:00 PM 2.48 0.7
45 Sat The Big Bang Theory TBS 9:00 PM 2.44 0.8
46 Fri The Big Bang Theory TBS 8:30 PM 2.44 0.7
47 Sat The Big Bang Theory TBS 10:00 PM 2.43 0.8
48 Sat NCIS USA 9:00 PM 2.39 0.4
49 Sun The Big Bang Theory TBS 8:00 PM 2.33 0.8
50 Wed The Big Bang Theory TBS 10:00 PM 2.32 0.7
51 Sun Sports Center ESPN 8:45 PM 2.30 0.9
52 Sat NCIS USA 8:00 PM 2.29 0.4
53 Sun JESSIE DSNY 8:00 PM 2.28 0.5
54 Mon Big Screen movie FAM 8:00 PM 2.25 0.9
55 Mon The Big Bang Theory TBS 10:30 PM 2.19 0.8
56 Sun JESSIE DSNY 8:30 PM 2.17 0.4
57 Sun Worst Cooks FOOD 9:00 PM 2.12 0.8
58 Sat NCIS USA 10:00 PM 2.08 0.3
59 Thu The Big Bang Theory TBS 10:30 PM 2.06 0.8
60 Sun JESSIE DSNY 7:30 PM 2.06 0.5
61 Sat The Big Bang Theory TBS 10:30 PM 2.05 0.7
62 Fri Gold Rush DISC 8:00 PM 2.04 0.5
63 Wed The Big Bang Theory TBS 9:30 PM 2.01 0.6
64 Sat The Big Bang Theory TBS 8:30 PM 2.01 0.7
65 Fri American Dad ADSM 10:30 PM 2.00 0.7
66 Wed The Big Bang Theory TBS 9:00 PM 2.00 0.6
67 Sat Austin & Jessie & Ally in NY DSNY 10:00 PM 1.99 0.4
68 Fri Castle TNT 8:00 PM 1.96 0.4
69 Sun Family Guy ADSM 10:30 PM 1.96 0.9
70 Sun Ax Men HIST 9:00 PM 1.96 0.6
71 Mon House Hunters HGTV 10:00 PM 1.96 0.5
72 Sun Law & Order: SVU USA 7:00 PM 1.95 0.6
73 Sun Law & Order: SVU USA 8:00 PM 1.95 0.6
74 Sat JESSIE DSNY 9:30 PM 1.94 0.4
75 Sat DAMAGED LIFE 8:00 PM 1.94 0.6
76 Tue American Dad ADSM 10:30 PM 1.93 0.9
77 Wed The Big Bang Theory TBS 10:30 PM 1.92 0.6
78 Fri American Dad ADSM 10:00 PM 1.91 0.7
79 Sun Law & Order: SVU USA 9:00 PM 1.91 0.6
80 Mon The Big Bang Theory TBS 10:00 PM 1.90 0.7
81 Thu HGTV 2015 Dream Home HGTV 8:00 PM 1.89 0.5
82 Sun Kourt & Khlo E 9:00 PM 1.84 0.9
83 Thu The Big Bang Theory TBS 10:00 PM 1.83 0.7
84 Sun Beachfront Bargin Hunt HGTV 8:30 PM 1.82 0.5
85 Fri The Big Bang Theory TBS 8:00 PM 1.81 0.5
86 Wed Law & Order: SVU USA 8:00 PM 1.80 0.6
87 Tue Moonshiners DISC 10:00 PM 1.78 0.5
88 Mon American Dad ADSM 10:30 PM 1.76 0.8
89 Tue American Dad ADSM 10:00 PM 1.75 0.8
90 Sun NFL Primetime ESPN 7:45 PM 1.74 0.6
91 Sat JESSIE DSNY 8:30 PM 1.74 0.4
92 Thu American Dad ADSM 10:30 PM 1.74 0.7
93 Sun Alaska: The Last Frontier DISC 8:00 PM 1.74 0.4
94 Sat College Basketball ESPN 8:15 PM 1.73 0.7
95 Sun Law & Order: SVU USA 10:00 PM 1.72 0.6
96 Tue Ground Floor TBS 10:00 PM 1.71 0.7
97 Sun The Big Bang Theory TBS 7:30 PM 1.71 0.6
98 Sun Sunday Movie FAM 8:00 PM 1.70 0.7
99 Sun Sister Wives TLC 9:00 PM 1.68 0.7
100 Tue The Big Bang Theory TBS 10:30 PM 1.68 0.6

* - in millions

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