ABC's THIS WEEK Beats NBC's 'Meet the Press' for 5th Week

By: Mar. 27, 2014
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On March 23, 2014, ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" averaged 3.400 million Total Viewers and 1.053 million Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. "This Week" led NBC's "Meet the Press" by 596,000 Total Viewers and by 248,000 Adults 25-54. Beating the NBC program for the 5th Sunday in a row, "This Week" scored its longest string of victories over the "Meet the Press" in more than 16 years in Total Viewers (since 8/10 - 9/7/97) and more than 19 years in Adults 25-54 (since 9/11 - 10/9/94).

"This Week" continues to deliver significant increases over its year-ago telecast (2.433 million and 731,000, respectively on 3/24/13) in both Total Viewers (+40%) and Adults 25-54 (+44%). In fact, "This Week" has turned in year-to-year gains for the last 8 weeks in both measures.

Season to date, "This Week" is up in Total Viewers (+14%) and Adults 25-54 (+12%) versus its year-ago season averages. Growing in both measures for the 2nd year in a row, "This Week" is delivering its strongest performance in 5 years - since the 2008-09 season. In addition, "This Week" is up the most from the same point last season in both Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 versus CBS' "Face the Nation" (+3%/+4%), NBC's "Meet the Press" (-5%/-7%) and Fox's "Fox News Sunday" (+2%/-10%).

In addition, "This Week" leads NBC's "Meet the Press" this season in both Total Viewers (+81,000) and Adults 25-54 (+31,000), beating the NBC program during a season for the first time in 17 years in overall viewers and in 20 years in the key adult news demo - since the 1996-97 and the 1993-94 seasons, respectively.

Robin Sproul, Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, serves as the Executive in Charge of "This Week" and Jonathan Greenberger serves as the Executive Broadcast Producer.

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Sunday, March 23, 2014 TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54 (000)/Rtg

ABC "THIS WEEK" 3,400,000 1,053,000/0.9

NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 2,804,000 805,000/0.7

CBS "FACE THE NATION" 3,938,000 1,177,000/1.0

CBS "FACE THE NATION-2" 2,359,000 750,000/0.6

FOX "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" 1,522,000 601,000/0.5

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI (Total Viewers and Adults 25-54); Live+SD for 3/23/14, 3/16/14 and 3/24/13 or as dated. Most Current: 2013-2014 Season (9/23/13 - 3/23/14) and 2012-2013 Season (9/24/12 - 3/24/13).



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