WWE RAW led all cable viewing for the week followed by The Closer. Coverage of president Obama’s address bumped the season’s penultimate Burn Notice to 7th for the week. Six different airings of repeats of NCIS made the top twenty, with one of them making the top 10. For the week there were 26 airings of NCIS on USA and every one of them cleared 2 million.
SpongeBob may only be in the top twenty twice, but of its gazillion airings, 51 of them aborbed 2 million or more average viewers. Fifty-one!
Once again, a years old airing at midnight of That’s So Raven a litany of competition including new airings of the Real Housewives franchise on Bravo,one of the remaining original episodes of Battlestar Galactica on SciFi, The Real World on MTV, LeBron James on ESPN, and of course, Damages. Raven-Symoné!
Tricia Helfer, bow down! (Technically Helfer was on Burn Notice too so has the satisfaction of actually thrashing her, but Caprica 6 was trumped). Glen Close, bow down. LeBron James, bow down. Raven-Symoné owns you all!
Update: HBO’s Big Love hit a season-high 2.4 million Sunday, doubling its Jan. 18 opener according to USA Today.
Top 20 cable shows for the week ending March 1, 2009:
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Please note, all shows outside of the top twenty are sorted by viewers but not ranked. If you don’t see a show listed here, the only thing you can conclude for sure is that it wasn’t in the top twenty. The top twenty would include premium cable, if any of those shows ever made the top twenty. But the additional show list is for advertising supported basic cable networks only. We do not see data directly for premium cable channels.
There are over 14,000 shows. I’m not taking requests. If you make a request in the comments anyway, I might delete it, ignore it or mock you. Or turn the comments off altogether 
I forgot to add Kyle XY to the table, but it averaged 1.240 million
| Rank | Shows | NET | DAY | Time | Viewers Live+SD (000) |
| 1 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT | USA | Mon | 10:00P-11:12P | 6,276 |
| 2 | CLOSER, THE | TNT | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 6,011 |
| 3 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT | USA | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 5,737 |
| 4 | PRES ADDRESS/ANALYSIS | FOXN | Tue | 10:09P-10:24P | 5,058 |
| 5 | OBAMA CONG ADDRESS | CNN | Tue | 09:15P-10:09P | 5,050 |
| 6 | OBAMA ADDRESS TO CONGRESS | FOXN | Tue | 09:17P-10:09P | 5,015 |
| 7 | BURN NOTICE | USA | Thu | 10:00P-11:01P | 4,848 |
| 8 | SR/OBAMA CONG ANALYSIS | CNN | Tue | 10:09P-10:19P | 4,680 |
| 9 | PRES ADDRESS/GOP RESPONSE | FOXN | Tue | 10:24P-10:37P | 4,674 |
| 10 | NCIS | USA | Thu | 07:00P-08:00P | 4,535 |
| 11 | PRES ADDRESS CVG | FOXN | Tue | 09:00P-09:17P | 4,378 |
| 12 | NCIS | USA | Mon | 07:00P-08:00P | 4,264 |
| 13 | NCIS | USA | Mon | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,221 |
| 14 | SPONGEBOB | NICK | Sat | 12:00P-12:30P | 4,170 |
| 15 | NCIS | USA | Sat | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,161 |
| 16 | SPONGEBOB | NICK | Sun | 12:00P-12:30P | 4,150 |
| 17 | NCIS | USA | Wed | 07:00P-08:00P | 4,132 |
| 18 | HANNAH MONTANA | DSNY | Sun | 07:30P-08:00P | 4,104 |
| 19 | WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE | DSNY | Sun | 08:30P-09:00P | 4,102 |
| 20 | NCIS | USA | Tue | 07:00P-08:00P | 4,081 |
| Other Shows These are not ranked,. Thousands of airings are missing | |||||
| SONNY WITH A CHANCE | DSNY | Sun | 08:00P-08:30P | 4,067 | |
| THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Tue | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,966 | |
| ICARLY | NICK | Sat | 01:00P-01:30P | 3,836 | |
| TOP CHEF | BRAV | Wed | 10:00P-11:00P | 3,743 | |
| BACK AT THE BARNYARD | NICK | Sat | 10:00A-10:30A | 3,666 | |
| MIGHTY B! | NICK | Sat | 10:30A-11:00A | 3,469 | |
| LEVERAGE | TNT | Tue | 10:00P-11:00P | 3,322 | |
| SECRET LIFE/AMERICAN TEEN | FAM | Mon | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,270 | |
| AMERICA | LIFE | Sat | 09:00P-11:00P | 3,212 | |
| FAIRLY ODD PARENTS | NICK | Sat | 08:30A-09:00A | 3,211 | |
| JON & KATE PLUS 8 | TLC | Mon | 09:00P-09:30P | 3,065 | |
| TRUE JACKSON, VP | NICK | Sat | 08:30P-09:00P | 2,857 | |
| NASCAR NATIONWIDE SRS L | ESP2 | Sat | 04:30P-08:07P | 2,833 | |
| MICKEY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE | DSNY | Sat | 09:30A-09:55A | 2,757 | |
| HOUSE OF PAYNE | TBSC | Wed | 10:00P-10:30P | 2,743 | |
| AMERICAS BEST DANCE CREW | MTV | Thu | 10:00P-11:00P | 2,644 | |
| PHINEAS AND FERB | DSNY | Fri | 08:30P-08:55P | 2,632 | |
| SUNS/LAKERS | TNT | Thu | 10:44P-01:15A | 2,555 | |
| GIRLS NEXT DOOR | EN | Sun | 10:00P-11:00P | 2,535 | |
| KANSAS/OKLAHOMA | ESPN | Mon | 09:07P-11:21P | 2,461 | |
| I LOVE MONEY 2 | VH1 | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 2,406 | |
| STAR WARS:CLONE WARS | TOON | Fri | 09:00P-09:30P | 2,372 | |
| HOME IMPROVEMENT | NAN | Fri | 11:30P-12:00A | 2,258 | |
| REAL HOUSEWIVES OF OC | BRAV | Tue | 09:00P-10:00P | 2,214 | |
| COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN | MSNB | Tue | 10:40P-11:20P | 2,203 | |
| BATMAN:BRAVE & THE BOLD | TOON | Fri | 08:00P-08:30P | 2,183 | |
| DUKE/MARYLAND | ESPN | Wed | 09:06P-11:15P | 2,141 | |
| FAMILY MATTERS | NAN | Fri | 12:00A-12:30A | 2,102 | |
| NIP TUCK | FX | Tue | 10:00P-11:01P | 2,098 | |
| THATS SO RAVEN – LN | DSNY | Sat | 12:00A-12:30A | 1,943 | |
| REAL WORLD XXI | MTV | Wed | 10:00P-11:00P | 1,915 | |
| CAVALIERS/HAWKS | ESPN | Sun | 08:00P-10:47P | 1,897 | |
| ECW | SCIF | Tue | 09:00P-10:00P | 1,891 | |
| LEVERAGE SPECIAL | TNT | Tue | 09:00P-10:00P | 1,890 | |
| SEINFELD | TBSC | Thu | 07:30P-08:00P | 1,889 | |
| DAILY SHOW | CMDY | Wed | 10:59P-11:30P | 1,880 | |
| REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NYC | BRAV | Tue | 10:00P-11:00P | 1,861 | |
| CAVALIERS/SPURS | ESPN | Fri | 09:39P-12:15A | 1,839 | |
| FOOD NETWORK 4 PACK | FOOD | Sat | 09:30P-10:00P | 1,833 | |
| DIRTY JOBS | DISC | Tue | 09:00P-10:00P | 1,729 | |
| BATTLSTR GALACTICA (ORIG) | SCIF | Fri | 10:00P-11:01P | 1,657 | |
| TRUST ME | TNT | Mon | 10:00P-11:00P | 1,646 | |
| THE SOUP | EN | Sun | 11:00P-11:30P | 1,367 | |
| BAD GIRLS CLUB | OXYG | Tue | 10:00P-11:00P | 1,005 | |
| MOONLIGHT | SCIF | Fri | 09:00P-10:00P | 991 | |
| CHELSEA LATELY | EN | Sun | 11:30P-12:00A | 889 | |
| DAMAGES | FX | Wed | 10:00P-11:00P | 887 |
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