Stephanopoulos Anchored " GMA" Also No. 1 Last Week

On September 2, 2012, ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" ranked as Sunday's No. 1 public affairs program in Total Viewers (2.728 million) and Adults 25-54 (766,000), according to Nielsen Media Research. For the first time in more than 3 years, "This Week" took the top spot, beating both NBC's "Meet the Press" and CBS' "Face the Nation," in both Nielsen measures - since 8/2/09.

"This Week" surged week to week (2.182 million and 680,000, respectively, on 8/26/12) in both Total Viewers (+25%) and Adults 25-54 (+13%) . The ABC public affairs program drew its largest Total Viewer count in nearly 7 months (since 2/12/12) and 2nd largest overall audience this season.

Year to year, "This Week" was up in both Total Viewers (+23%) and Adults 25-54 (+3%) - 2.215 million and 741,000, respectively, on 9/4/11 . "This Week" stood as the only public affairs program to improve on its year-ago performance in both Nielsen measures - NBC's "Meet the Press" (+5%/-10%), CBS' "Face the Nation" (-3%/-6%) and Fox's "Fox News Sunday" (-13%/-12%).

"This Week" topped CBS' "Face the Nation" in both Total Viewers (+482,000) and Adults 25-54 (+106,000), posting its largest Total Viewer margin over the CBS program in over 2 years - since 6/27/10.

"This Week" beat NBC's "Meet the Press" by +2,000 Total Viewers and by +65,000 Adults 25-54.

See Also: "GMA" is #1 for the Week: Posts Historic Margins of Victory Over NBC's "Today"- Largest Total Viewer and Adults 25-54 Margins in 18 Years

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI (Total Viewers and Adults 25-54); Live+SD for 9/2/12, 8/26/12 & 9/4/11 or as dated.

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