Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Wednesday, 5/4/22. Items of note include NBA Playoffs on ESPN, Temptation Island on USA, and the midseason finale of Good Trouble on Freeform.
(Click the names of the shows written in teal or blue to be taken to their pages in the TV Ratings Guide Cable Database.)
Show | Network | 18-49 Viewers | Viewers (mil.) |
| NBA Playoffs: Mavericks v. Suns | TNT | 1.47 | 4.17 |
| NBA Playoffs: 76ers v. Heat | TNT | 1.15 | 3.43 |
| Inside the NBA Playoffs | TNT | 0.64 | 1.67 |
| All-Elite Wrestling: Dynamite | TBS | 0.32 | 0.83 |
| The Five | Fox News | 0.25 | 3.18 |
| NHL Playoffs: Bruins v. Hurricanes | ESPN | 0.25 | 0.73 |
| NBA Pre-Game | TNT | 0.21 | 0.75 |
| Tucker Carlson Tonight | Fox News | 0.21 | 3.28 |
| CONCACAF Champions League | TUDN | 0.20 | 0.46 |
| NHL Playoffs: Blues v. Wild | ESPN | 0.20 | 0.53 |
| Hannity | Fox News | 0.18 | 2.88 |
| Special Report with Bret Baier | Fox News | 0.17 | 2.38 |
| My Feet Are Killing Me | TLC | 0.17 | 1.08 |
| House Hunters | HGTV | 0.17 | 1.15 |
| First Take | ESPN | 0.16 | 0.45 |
| NHL: Lightning v. Maple Leafs | ESPN2 | 0.16 | 0.50 |
| The Ingraham Angle | Fox News | 0.16 | 2.29 |
| Gutfeld! | Fox News | 0.16 | 2.04 |
| See No Evil | ID | 0.16 | 0.67 |
| House Hunters | HGTV | 0.16 | 1.18 |
| Guy's Grocery Games | Food | 0.15 | 0.66 |
| UEFA Champions League | TUDN | 0.15 | 0.37 |
| NHL Playoffs: Kings v. Oilers | ESPN2 | 0.15 | 0.37 |
| Pardon the Interruption | ESPN | 0.14 | 0.63 |
| Why the heck Did I Buy This House? | HGTV | 0.14 | 1.05 |
| Fox & Friends | Fox News | 0.13 | 1.77 |
| Jesse Watters Primetime | Fox News | 0.13 | 2.31 |
| Outnumbered | Fox News | 0.13 | 1.79 |
| A Time To Kill | ID | 0.13 | 0.56 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.12 | 0.32 |
| Get Up | ESPN | 0.12 | 0.36 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.12 | 0.43 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.12 | 0.28 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.11 | 0.28 |
| Your World with Neil Cavuto | Fox News | 0.11 | 1.43 |
| Married At First Sight | Lifetime | 0.11 | 0.84 |
| The Faulkner Focus | Fox News | 0.11 | 1.63 |
| America Reports | Fox News | 0.11 | 1.52 |
| Forged in Fire | History | 0.11 | 0.52 |
| Erin Burnett OutFront | CNN | 0.11 | 0.67 |
| Fox News @ Night | Fox News | 0.11 | 1.11 |
| The Story | Fox News | 0.10 | 1.39 |
| America Reports | Fox News | 0.10 | 1.39 |
| The Daily Show | Comedy Central | 0.10 | 0.43 |
| America's Newsroom | Fox News | 0.10 | 1.75 |
| Moonshiners: American Spirit | Discovery | 0.10 | 0.52 |
| Around the Horn | ESPN | 0.10 | 0.46 |
| This Just In | ESPN | 0.10 | 0.27 |
| Fox & Friends | Fox News | 0.10 | 1.40 |
| America's Newsroom | Fox News | 0.10 | 1.65 |
| Highlights Below the Chart: | |||
| House of Payne | BET | 0.10 | 0.53 |
| Temptation Island | USA | 0.09 | 0.34 |
| The Situation Room | CNN | 0.09 | 0.60 |
| 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC | 0.08 | 0.84 |
| Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell | MSNBC | 0.08 | 1.33 |
| Assisted Living | BET | 0.08 | 0.50 |
| All In with Chris Hayes | MSNBC | 0.06 | 1.15 |
| The ReidOut | MSNBC | 0.05 | 0.94 |
| The Courtship | USA | 0.05 | 0.18 |
| Morning Joe | MSNBC | 0.04 | 0.85 |
| Deadline: White House | MSNBC | 0.03 | 1.11 |
| Good Trouble | Freeform | 0.03 | 0.11 |
