‘Nightline’ Is No.1 in Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 for the 3rd Straight Week

ByABC News
June 23, 2016, 1:15 PM

— -- ‘Nightline’ Draws Its Largest Overall Audience in 1 1/2 Years‘Nightline’ Sees Its Best A25-54 Performance in 4 Years and Strongest 18-49 Number in 3 Years

ABC News’ “Nightline” ranked No. 1 in Total Viewers (1.850 million), Adults 25-54 (819,000) and Adults 18-49 (681,000) for the 3rd week in a row during the week of June 13, 2016, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research.

For the 4th consecutive week, “Nightline” scored week-to-week increases (1.723 million, 743,000 and 645,000, respectively, for w/o 6/6/16) in all key target demos: Total Viewers (+7%), Adults 25-54 (+10%) and Adults 18-49 (+6%), hitting new season highs in each measure. In fact, “Nightline” saw its largest overall audience in 1 1/2 years, best Adults 25-54 performance in 4 years, and strongest Adults 18-49 number in 3 years – since weeks of 11/24/14, 6/18/12 and 6/17/13, respectively.

“Nightline” turned in double-digit gains on the year-ago week (1.479 million, 661,000 and 554,000, respectively, for w/o 6/15/15) across the board: Total Viewers (+25%), Adults 25-54 (+24%) and Adults 18-49 (+23%).

Season to date, “Nightline” leads CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden” across the board: Total Viewers (+306,000), Adults 25-54 (+105,000) and Adults 18-49 (+61,000).

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. EDT 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.

Week of June 13, 2016:

PROGRAM AVERAGES TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54(000)/Rtg A18-49(000)/RtgABC “Nightline” 1,850,000 819,000/0.7 681,000/0.5CBS “The Late Late Show” 1,175,000 453,000/0.4 374,000/0.3NBC “Late Night” 1,377,000 616,000/0.5 492,000/0.4

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD weeks of 6/13/16, 6/6/16 and 6/15/15. Most Current: 2015-2016 Season (9/21/15 – 6/19/16) and 2014-2015 Season (9/22/14 – 6/12/15). 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.

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