ABC's THIS WEEK Grows Week-to-Week in Total Viewers and Key Demo

ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" ranked as the No. 1 public affairs program in Adults 25-54 (988,000) on March 22, 2015, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. Taking the top spot in the key adult news demo for the 2nd time in the last three Sundays, "This Week" beat both CBS' "Face the Nation" (+170,000) and NBC's "Meet the Press" (+178,000) each by its largest advantages in more than 2 months - since 1/4/15.

"This Week" scored double-digit, week-to-week gains (2.567 million and 787,000, respectively, for 3/15/15) in both Total Viewers (+16%) and Adults 25-54 (+26%), hitting a 7-week high in the key adult news demo - since 2/1/15. In addition, "This Week" improved the most from the previous week in both measures compared to CBS' "Face the Nation" (-11%/flat) and NBC's "Meet the Press" (+9%/+5%).

Season to date, "This Week" is outdelivering NBC's "Meet the Press" in Total Viewers (+16,000) and Adults 25-54 (+65,000) for the 2nd year in a row, seeing its largest news demo lead in 22 years - since the 1992-93 season, respectively.

Jonathan Greenberger is Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, and also serves as the Executive Producer of "This Week." Robin Sproul serves as Vice President, Public Affairs and Executive-in-Charge of "This Week"

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Sunday, March 22, 2015 TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54 (000)/Rtg

ABC "THIS WEEK" 2,976,000 988,000/0.8

NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 2,938,000 810,000/0.7

CBS "FACE THE NATION" 2,998,000 818,000/0.7

CBS "FACE THE NATION-2" 1,649,000 443,000/0.4

FOX "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" 1,442,000 516,000/0.4

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI (Total Viewers and Adults 25-54); Live + SD for 3/22/15, 3/15/15 and 3/23/14 or as dated. Most Current: 2014-2015 Season (9/22/14 - 3/22/15) and 2013-2014 Season (9/23/13 - 3/23/14). Averages based on regular telecasts.

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