The Week of October 23 – 29
'Flavor of Love' sacks football, USA scores as week’s top cable network

(November 3, 2006) Once again, the two favorite cable shows in black households trade places place for the top spot. VH1’s “Flavor of Love” returned to No.1, pushing ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” match-up during the fourth week of October. “Flavor” was the only show to break the two million homes barrier.

USA network was the week’s top network, with eight programs on the Top 25 chart. BET followed with five entries. VH1 and Disney both claimed four.

The total number of black households watching the Top 25 was 16.3 million, according to Nielsen Media Research. That’s means that cable viewing for the top shows lost all of the 20 percent-plus gain from the previous week’s total.


ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” returned to the No.1 spot for most popular cable shows with black households, having been momentarily knock out by VH1’s “Flavor of Love.” Awards shows took second and third, represented respectively by TNT’s “The Black Movie Awards” and VH1’s “Hip-Hop Honors.”

But the overwhelming network winner for the second week of October was the Disney Channel. Thanks to the Columbus Day holiday, the network conspired with younger viewers to seize the remote and claim 13 of the chart’s top programs.

The total number of black households watching the Top 25, according to Nielsen Media Research, was 21.4 million. That’s a whopping 20 percent increase over the previous week’s total. Interesting to note is the fact that the top 25 over the air programs had only 1.7 percent increase in audience for the same period.

Top 25 Cable Shows in Black Households

 Rank | Program | Network | Rating | # of Homes

Source: Nielsen Media Research. Number of homes shown
in thousands. Ranking based on percentage of black
households.


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