TV Ratings for Week of Nov. 12 – 18
Fox’s ‘The OT’ heads up top 25 shows for the week; CBS remains top network
 
(November 20, 2007) The rest of the world may prefer dancing, but black TV viewers prefer football. During the third full week in November black households made Fox’s “The OT” post-game show the No.1 program on the top 25 most popular programs. The top show in white households was “Dancing with the Stars.” The second place show for black viewers was NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” which ranked only eleven with white viewers.

CBS was again the top network with African-American households with ten shows on the top 25. ABC and Fox tied for second place with five shows each. The CW had three shows followed by NBC with two.

The total number of black viewers watching the top 25 shows, according to Nielsen Media Research was 40.6 million individual viewers. That’s a drop over three percent from the previous week’s total individual black viewers of 42.05 million.

[Note: Beginning this week we are listing the audience totals by individual viewers age two and older instead of by households. This information is provided by Nielsen and allows for easier comparisons with other published Nielsen data.]

Top 25 Broadcast Shows in Black Households

Rank | Program | Network | Rating | No. of Viewers

1	THE OT	FOX	5.8	2.085
2	SUN. NIGHT FOOTBALL	NBC	5.7	2.062
3	THE GAME	CW	5.8	2.071
4	AMER MUSIC AWARDS	ABC	5.8	2.096
5	CSI	CBS	4.6	1.671
6	60 MINUTES	CBS	5.0	1.799
7	WITHOUT A TRACE	CBS	4.5	1.623
8	DANCING W/THE STARS-MON	ABC	4.9	1.763
9	SHARK	CBS	4.7	1.674
10	CSI: MIAMI	CBS	4.8	1.718
11	GREY'S ANATOMY-THU	ABC	4.1	1.488
12	GIRLFRIENDS	CW	4.7	1.690
13	CSI: NY	CBS	4.2	1.527
14	NCIS	CBS	4.0	1.435
15	UGLY BETTY	ABC	4.0	1.425
16	CRIMINAL MINDS	CBS	4.1	1.491
17	FAMILY GUY	FOX	4.2	1.512
18	HOUSE	FOX	4.4	1.573
19	SUN NIGHT NFL PRE-KICK	NBC	4.1	1.489
20	KING OF THE HILL	FOX	4.1	1.468
21	COLD CASE	CBS	4.0	1.423
22	SIMPSONS	FOX	4.0	1.427
23	DANCING W/STARS -TU	ABC	3.8	1.362
24	AMERICA'S TOP MODEL-3	CW	4.1	1.481
25	THE UNIT	CBS	3.5	1.254

Source: Nielsen Media Research. Number of viewers
ages 2+ shown in millions. 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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