"Nightline" Ranks as Latenight's No. 1 Program Across all Target Demos
"Nightline" Scores its Strongest Performance in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 in 5 Months
"Nightline" has Taken the No. 1 Position in 27 weeks in Total Viewers and 32 Weeks in Adults 25-54
For the week of June 11, 2012, ABC's "Nightline" finished as latenight's No. 1 program in all 3 target demos: Total Viewers (4.065 million), Adults 25-54 (1.695 million) and Adults 18-49 (1.569 million), according to Nielsen Media Research. "Nightline" has taken the top spot in latenight in all 3 measures in 11 of the last 12 weeks.
Hitting multi-month highs across-the-board, "Nightline" scored its strongest performance in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 in 5 months and best Adults 18-49 number in 7 months - since w/o 1/16/12 and w/o 11/21/11, respectively. In fact, it was the latenight program's 2nd-highest Adults 18-49 audience of the season.
"Nightline" has taken the No. 1 position in 27 weeks in Total Viewers, 32 weeks in Adults 25-54 and 31 weeks in Adults 18-49 of the 39 weeks of the season to date.
"Nightline's" Friday telecast (6/15/12), featuring a segment on Nik Wallenda, stood as latenight's most-watched telecast (4.550 million) of the week. In addition, "Nightline's" Tuesday airing (6/12/12) ranked as the top latenight telecast of the week in Adults 25-54 (2.118 million) and Adults 18-49 (2.143 million). In fact, in Adults 18-49, it was the ABC programs' top performance in nearly 4 years (since 11/4/08) and best latenight telecast in over 2 years (since a "The Tonight Show" airing on 1/22/10).
Season to date, "Nightline" ranks No. 1 in latenight among Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49, ahead of both NBC's "The Tonight Show" and CBS' "The Late Show." This marks the 2nd straight season that the ABC program is taking the top spot in all 3 Nielsen measures.
Note: Due to Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Championship, "The Tonight Show" retitled their program to "The Tonight Show-JL" on Monday (6/11), and was excluded from the average. ABC's and CBS's weekly average are based on five days, while NBC's weekly average was based on four days (Tues-Fri).
ABC News' "Nightline" is anchored by Cynthia McFadden, Terry Moran and Bill Weir. Juju Chang is a correspondent. Jeanmarie Condon is the Executive Producer. The program airs weeknights from 11:35 p.m., ET to 12:00 a.m. on the ABC Television Network. Together with "Jimmy Kimmel Live," "Nightline" is part of ABC's winning latenight strategy of airing news and entertainment programming.
(Week of June 11, 2012)
PROGRAM AVERAGES | TOTAL VIEWERS | A25-54(000)/Rtg | A18-49(000)/ Rtg |
ABC "NIGHTLINE" | 4,065,000 | 1,695,000/ 1.4 | 1,569,000/ 1.2 |
CBS "LATE SHOW" | 2,656,000 | 1,073,000/ 0.9 | 818,000/ 0.6 |
NBC "TONIGHT SHOW" | 3,450,000 | 1,243,000/ 1.0 | 917,000/ 0.7 |
Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 Live + SD weeks of 6/11/12, 6/4/12 & 6/11/11. Most Current: 2011-2012 Season (9/19/11 - 6/17/12) and 2010-2011 Season (9/20/10 - 6/19/11).
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