ABC's ‘The View’ Outperforms CBS’ ‘The Talk’ Across the Board

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‘The View’ Sees Gains on the Year-Ago Week in All Key Target Demos: Total Viewers (+7%), Women 25-54 (+9%) and Women 18-49 (+7%)

ABC’s “The View” averaged 2.730 million Total Viewers, 535,000 Women 25-54 and 408,000 Women 18-49 during the week of May 16, 2016, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. “The View” scored an across-the-board victory over CBS’ “The Talk” (2.632 million, 526,000 and 390,000, respectively): Total Viewers (+98,000), Women 25-54 (+9,000) and Women 18-49 (+18,000). .  In addition, “View” turned in its largest overall viewer advantage over “The Talk” in 6 weeks – since w/o 4/4/16.

“The View” improved week to week (496,000 and 400,000, respectively, on w/o 5/9/16) in Women 25-54 (+8%) and Women 18-49 (+2%).

“The View” scored increases on the year-ago week (2.563 million, 491,000 and 381,000, respectively, on w/o 5/18/15) in all key target demos: Total Viewers (+7%), Women 25-54 (+9%) and Women 18-49 (+7%), posted gains in all 3 measures in 4 of the last 5 weeks.  

2016 to-date, “The View” is improving in Total Viewers (+118,000 – 2.900 million vs. 2.782 million) and Women 25-54 (+2,000 – 580,000 vs. 578,000) compared to the same point in 2015.

Week of May 16, 2016:

PROGRAM AVERAGES      TOTAL VIEWERS    WOMEN 25-54(000)/Rtg    WOMEN 18-49(000)/Rtg 

ABC “THE VIEW”                           2,730,000                          535,000/0.9                      408,000/0.6

CBS “THE TALK”                             2,632,000                          526,000/0.9                      390,000/0.6

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Women 25-54 and Women 18-49 Live + SD weeks of 5/16/16, 5/9/16 and 5/18/15.  Most Current: 2015-2016 Season (9/21/15 – 5/22/16) and 2014-2015 Season (9/22/14 – 5/24/15) and 2016 (12/28/15 – 5/22/16) and 2015 (12/29/14 – 5/24/15).  Averages based on regular telecasts.