"This Week" Surged Year to Year by +25% in Total Viewers and by +28% Adults 25-54

For the 2nd Time in the Last 3 Sundays, "This Week" beat NBC's "Meet the Press" in Adults 25-54

On September 16, 2012, ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" drew 2.673 million Total Viewers and 828,000 Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. "This Week" was up by +15% in Adults 25-54 (720,000 on 9/9/12) to post its strongest news demo performance in 2 months - since 7/15/12.

"This Week" surged year to year by +25% in Total Viewers and by +28% Adults 25-54 - 2.142 million and 648,000, respectively, on 9/18/12 .

For the 2nd time in the last 3 Sundays, "This Week" beat NBC's "Meet the Press" in Adults 25-54 (+18,000) .

Sunday, September 16, 2012 TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54 (000)/Rtg
ABC "THIS WEEK" 2,673,000 828,000/0.7
NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 2,894,000 810,000/0.7
CBS "FACE THE NATION" 3,135,000 875,000/0.7
CBS "FACE THE NATION-2? 1,312,000 358,000/0.3
FOX "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" 1,334,000 474,000/0.4

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI (Total Viewers and Adults 25-54); Live+SD for 9/16/12, 9/9/12 & 9/18/11 or as dated.

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