Black TV Ratings for Week of September 21 - 27
'Empire,' 'Rosewood,' 'Scandal, and 'Murder' push Sunday Night Football to No.4

(September 29, 2015) The season debut of Fox's historic hit "Empire" again knocked the former perennial No.1 show, NBC's "Sunday Night Football" out of first place on the Top 25 chart. But the hip-hop drama wasn't along. This season a fourth show joins with ABCs "Scandal" and "How To Get Away with Murder" as tacklers of the NFL. Fox's new crime drama, "Rosewood," starring Morris Chestnut, debuted as the week's No.2 with 4.3 million black viewers and pushed football to fourth place.

CBS continued its reign as the most watched TV network in black households, posting a total of 15.9 million viewers across ten shows on the top 25 chart. NBC followed with 13.5 million for eight shows. ABC was third with 10.9 million for five shows.

The total number of viewers for the Top 25 shows in black homes, according to Nielsen, was up 7.3 percent over the previous week to 55.8 million.

Top 25 Broadcast TV Shows in Black Households
 

Rank	Program	Network	% of AA Homes	% of AAs P2+	AA Viewers (000)
1	EMPIRE	FOX	47.1	28.0	11,063
2	ROSEWOOD	FOX	20.6	10.9	4,308
3	SCANDAL	ABC	17.9	8.7	3,429
4	HOW TO GET AWAY W/MURDER	ABC	16.5	8.0	3,175
5	NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL	NBC	16.3	8.5	3,342
6	THURS NIGHT FOOTBALL	CBS	14.1	7.2	2,859
7	THURS NIGHT FOOTBALL  POST GAME	CBS	11.6	6.3	2,471
8	SUNDAY NIGHT NFL PRE-KICK	NBC	11.4	6.0	2,371
9	THURS NIGHT FOOTBALL  PRE-KICK	CBS	9.3	4.5	1,786
10	GREY'S ANATOMY	ABC	9.3	4.3	1,716
11	60 MINUTES	CBS	9.2	4.6	1,809
12	FOOTBALL NITE AMERICA PT 3	NBC	9.1	4.8	1,903
13	DANCING WITH THE STARS	ABC	7.6	3.5	1,363
14	NCIS	CBS	7.0	3.5	1,371
15	THURS NIGHT FOOTBALL  KICK-OFF2	CBS	6.9	3.5	1,388
16	BLINDSPOT	NBC	6.5	3.2	1,244
17	QUANTICO	ABC	6.4	3.3	1,305
18	VOICE	NBC	6.2	3.0	1,165
19	FOOTBALL NITE AMERICA PT 2	NBC	6.1	3.4	1,352
20	CSI - SPECIAL	CBS	6.0	2.9	1,157
21	LIMITLESS	CBS	5.8	2.8	1,087
22	LAW AND ORDER:SVU	NBC	5.7	2.7	1,060
23	VOICE-TUE	NBC	5.7	2.7	1073
24	NCIS: NEW ORLEANS	CBS	5.4	2.7	1055
25	BLUE BLOODS	CBS	5.3	2.6	1009

Source: Nielsen. Number of viewers ages 2+ shown in thousands (1,000 = 1 million). Rankings are based on share of black households. Representing more than 13.45 million television households in the U.S., the African-American television audience is the largest minority segment in Nielsen's measurement samples. All times are eastern.


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