ABC's NIGHTLINE Ranks No.1 in Total Viewers for the Week of January 30

By: Feb. 07, 2017
Get Access To Every Broadway Story

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click.




Existing user? Just click login.

ABC News' "Nightline" ranked No. 1 in Total Viewers (1.435 million) during the week of January 30, 2017, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. Taking the top spot for the 3rd week in a row, "Nightline" beat CBS' "The Late Show with James Corden" (1.277 million) by 158,000 and NBC's LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS (1.431 million) by 4,000.

Season to date, "Nightline" leads CBS' "The Late Late Show with James Corden" in all key target demos: Total Viewers (+151,000 - 1.491 million vs. 1.340 million), Adults 25-54 (+41,000 - 561,000 vs. 520,000) and Adults 18-49 (+25,000 - 425,000 vs. 400,000).

Week of January 30, 2017:

PROGRAM AVERAGES TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54(000)/Rtg A18-49(000)/Rtg
ABC "Nightline" 1,435,000 512,000/0.4 368,000/0.3
CBS "The Late Late Show" 1,277,000 492,000/0.4 380,000/0.3
NBC "Late Night" 1,431,000 609,000/0.5 487,000/0.4

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD weeks of 1/30/17, 1/23/17 and 2/1/16. Most Current: 2016-2017 Season (NNTV - 9/19/16 - 2/5/17) and 2015-2016 Season (Galaxy EXPLORER - 9/21/15 - 2/7/16). Averages based on regular telecasts. "Nightline" premiered in its new time period in January 2013. "Seth Meyers" premiered in February 2014. "James Corden" premiered in March 2015.

ABC News' "Nightline" is anchored by Dan Harris, Juju Chang and Byron Pitts. ROXANNA Sherwood is executive producer, and Steven Baker is senior broadcast producer. The program airs weeknights from 12:35-1:05 a.m. EST on the ABC Television Network. Together with "Jimmy Kimmel Live," "Nightline" is part of ABC's winning late-night strategy of airing news and entertainment programming.



Videos