Cable Ratings for Week of Oct. 1 - 7
‘Monday Night Football’ returns to No.1; BET is week’s top cable network

(October 10, 2007) ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” was the only cable show to attract more than a million black households, thus easily earning the title of No.1 show on the list of 25 most popular programs with black viewers Black households. In fact, the NFL game attracted twice the audience of the chart’s No.2 entry, BET’s gospel show, “Exalted.”

BET claimed the title of the week’s most popular cable network with black households thanks to nine shows on the top 25 during the first week of October. Disney followed with eight programs, while USA posted seven.

Overall it wasn’t a noteworthy week for cable, as the total number of homes watching the top 25 shows dropped 21 percent from the previous week to 13.5 million.

Top 25 Cable Shows in Black Households

 Rank | Program | Network | Rating | # of Homes

1	NFL REGULAR SEASON	ESPN	16.0	1,494
2	EXALTED	BET	7.7	715
3	WWE ENTERTAINMENT	USA	6.7	635
4	SUNDAY BEST	BET	7.0	614
5	WWE ENTERTAINMENT	USA	6.2	609
6	AMERICAN GANGSTER	BET	6.5	608
7	LAW & ORDER:CI	USA	6.4	587
8	HAUNTED MANSION	DISNEY	6.2	530
9	TWITCHES	DISNEY	5.5	519
10	HELL DATE	BET	5.3	510
11	HELL DATE	BET	5.4	507
12	GIRLFRIENDS	BET	5.3	491
13	HALLOWEENTOWN	DISNEY	5.8	483
14	LAW & ORDER:CI	USA	5.2	482
15	SUNDAY BEST	BET	5.5	476
16	HELL DATE	BET	5.2	472
17	GIRLFRIENDS	BET	5.1	465
18	SUITE LIFE OF ZACK & CODY	DISNEY	5.0	437
19	LAW & ORDER:CI	USA	5.1	435
20	CORY IN THE HOUSE	DISNEY	5.3	432
21	HALLOWEENTOWN II: KALABAR	DISNEY	4.7	431
22	LAW & ORDER:CI	USA	5.3	419
23	LAW & ORDER:CI	USA	5.0	414
24	MOMS GOT DATE W/  VAMPIRE	DISNEY	4.6	414
25	THE LITTLE VAMPIRE	DISNEY	4.8	413

Source: Nielsen Media Research. Number of homes
shown in thousands. Representing more than 13.45 million
television households in the U.S., the African-
American television audience is the largest minority
segment in Nielsen measurement samples.
All times eastern.


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