"This Week" is #1 for the 3 rd Quarter in Key Adults 25-54 Demographic

"This Week" Delivers First 3 rd Quarter News Demo Win in 17 Years

"This Week" Scores First Back-to-Back Demo Wins in Over Two Decades

"This Week" Outdelivers NBC's "Meet the Press" by Largest News Demo Advantage During Any Quarter in 21 Years and Largest Demo Advantage Over CBS' "Face the Nation" in Nearly 14 years

"This Week" Grows in Total Viewers and Demo Compared to the Year-Earlier Quarter

"This Week" is #1 in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 for Sunday, September 21 st

"This Week" Grows Year-to-Year and Week-to-Week in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54

"This Week" Finishes in Virtual Tie for First Place in Adults 25-54

for 2013-14 Television Season

"This Week" Delivers Most Competitive Season Performance in News Demo in 20 Years

"This Week"" Grows the Most from the Previous Season in Both Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 - Up by Double-Digits in Both Measures

3Q 2014 :

ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" ranked No. 1 for the 3rd quarter 2014 in Adults 25-54 (851,000), based on Most Current Data from Nielsen Media Research . After also winning 2Q14, "This Week" scored its first back-to-back news demo wins in more than 20 years - since 1Q94 and 2Q94, respectively. In addition, "This Week" turned in its first 3rd quarter Adults 25-54 victory in 17 years - since 3Q97. "This Week" turned in a dominant performance during the quarter in ranking No. 1 in the key adult news demo in 10 of the 12 weeks.

Leading NBC's "Meet the Press" in Adults 25-54 for the 5th straight quarter, "This Week" outdelivered the NBC program by its largest news demo advantage (+158,000) during any quarter in 21 years - since 3Q93. "This Week" led CBS' "Face the Nation" by its biggest Adults 25-54 quarter advantage (+103,000) in nearly 14 years - since 4Q00.

In Total Viewers, "This Week" beat NBC's "Meet the Press" for the 5th quarter in row with its largest overall viewer 3rd quarter advantage (+314,000) 17 years - since 3Q97.

"This Week" improved on the year-ago quarter (2.535 million and 701,000, respectively on 3Q13) in both Total Viewers (+9%) and Adults 25-54 (+21%), turning in its best numbers during a 3rd quarter in 13 years in overall viewers and in 5 years in the key adult news demo - since 3Q01 and 3Q09, respectively. In addition, "This Week" stood as the only public affairs program to grow in both measures compared to CBS' "Face the Nation" (+6%/-1%), NBC's "Meet the Press" (-3%/flat) and Fox's "Fox News Sunday" (+13%/-6%).

September 21, 2014:

"This Week with George Stephanopoulos" won the final telecast of the 2013-14 season in both Total Viewers (3.010 million) and Adults 25-54 (1.014 million) for September 21, 2014, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. "This Week" finished the season strong in Adults 25-54 as the ABC public affairs program ranked No. 1 in the key adult news demo in 14 of the final 17 weeks of the season.

For the 2nd straight week, "This Week" built on its week-ago performance (2.889 million and 947,000, respectively on 9/14/14) in both Total Viewers (+4%) and Adults 25-54 (+7%). In fact, "This Week's" final airing of the season stood as the top Adults 25-54 telecast among any of the public affairs programs since March - since 3/30/14 with CBS' "Face the Nation." In addition, "This Week" was the only program to grow week to week in either demo as CBS' "Face the Nation" (-4%/-19%), NBC's "Meet the Press" (-7%/-2%) and Fox's "Fox News Sunday" (-1%/-11%) all lost viewers.

" This Week" improved on the year-ago Sunday (2.909 million and 919,000, respectively, on 9/22/13) in both Total Viewers (+3%) and Adults 25-54 (+10%) . "This Week" was also the only public affairs program to grow year-to-year in both measures as CBS' "Face the Nation" (-2%/-4%) and NBC's "Meet the Press" (-12%/-13%) were down, while Fox's "Fox News Sunday" (+7%/-8%) was mixed.

"This Week" outdelivered NBC's "Meet the Press" (2.416 million and 657,000, respectively) by its largest Total Viewer advantage (+594,000) in over 3 months and biggest Adults 25-54 lead (+357,000) in 6 months - since 6/1/14 and 3/1/14, respectively.

2013-14 Season:

For the 2013-14 season, "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" finished in a virtual tie for No. 1 in Adults 25-54 with CBS' "Face the Nation," as only 1,000 news demo viewers separated the two public affairs programs (866,000 vs. 867,000), based on Most Current Data from Nielsen Media Research . With a near first-place finish, "This Week" turned in its most competitive season performance in the key adult news demo in 20 years - since the 1993-94 season.

During the 2013-14 season, " This Week" posted double-digit growth in both Total Viewers (+13%) and Adults 25-54 (+16%) versus last season, based on Most Current Data from Nielsen Media Research . In fact, "This Week" saw increases for the 2nd season in a row to deliver its strongest performance in 5 years - since the 2008-09 season. In addition, "This Week" was up the most from the previous season in both Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 versus CBS' "Face the Nation" (+2%/+1%), NBC's "Meet the Press" (-5%/-6%) and Fox's "Fox News Sunday" (+5%/-9%).

"This Week" led NBC's "Meet the Press" in both Total Viewers (+208,000) and Adults 25-54 (+80,000), beating the NBC program by its largest margins in Total Viewers in 18 years and in the key adult news demo advantage in 21 years - since the 1995-96 and the 1992-93 seasons, respectively.

Jonathan Greenberger is Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, and also serves as the Executive Producer of "This Week." Robin Sproul serves as Vice President, Public Affairs and Executive-in-Charge of "This Week"