The Week of April 16 – 22
BET’s ‘College Hill’ grabs top cable spot; Disney was week’s top network

(April 23, 2007) After hovering for weeks near the top of most popular cable shows chart, BET’s “College Hill” reality drama took the number one spot in the third week of April. BET claimed five of the chart’s top shows which made it the second most popular network.

However, it was the younger members of black households that had control over primetime viewing, and that gave Disney the network advantage. With ten shows on the chart, Disney was the week’s winning network. Following BET were USA and VH1, each of which posted three shows on the list.

The total number of black homes watching the top 25, according to Nielsen data, was 16.7 million, a drop of two percent over the previous week’s total.

Top 25 Cable Shows in Black Households

 Rank | Program | Network | Rating | # of Homes

1	COLLEGE HILL	BET	14.2	1,367
2	CHARM SCHOOL	VH1	11.7	1,127
3	NBA PLAYOFFS	TNT	11.7	1,066
4	RUNS HOUSE	BET	9.4	865
5	WWE ENTERTAINMENT	USA	8.4	813
6	WWE ENTERTAINMENT	USA	8.1	784
7	NBA PLAYOFFS-1ST RD	ESPN	8.9	751
8	I LOVE NEW YORK	VH1	7.2	698
9	MOVIE OF THE WEEK	BET	8.4	674
10	RUNS HOUSE	MTV	6.6	642
11	S …ZACK&CODY	DISNEY	7.6	599
12	MOVIE OF THE WEEK	BET	6.2	568
13	S …ZACK&CODY	DISNEY	7.5	561
14	S CORY IN THE HOUSE	DISNEY	6.2	547
15	THE SOPRANOS	HBO	5.7	547
16	S …ZACK&CODY	DISNEY	6.5	544
17	…ZACK & CODY	DISNEY	7.1	538
18	BET HIP HOP AWARDS	BET	6.0	538
19	I LOVE NEW YORK	VH1	5.6	529
20	S CORY IN THE HOUSE	DISNEY	6.1	517
21	SHORTY MCSHORTS SHORTS	DISNEY	6.4	513
22	S CORY IN THE HOUSE	DISNEY	6.1	501
23	LAW & ORDER: SVU	USA	5.7	496
24	S …ZACK&CODY	DISNEY	5.7	485
25	CHEETAH GIRLS 2, THE	DISNEY	5.3	483

Source: The Nielsen Co. Number of homes shown
 in thousands.


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