Ratings Report: ABC News Programming

For the Week of November 17

ABC News' "Nightline" is No. 1 for the Week in Total Viewers for Fifth Straight Week;

Largest Overall Audience of the Season

Thursday's Broadcast No. 1 Show of Week in Total Viewers, Adults 18-49, and Adults 25-54

"Nightline" is No. 1 in Total Viewers Season to Date Versus its CBS and NBC Competition

"Nightline" Leads CBS in All Key Demos

Posts Week-to-Week and Year-to-Year Increases in All Key Demos

ABC News' "Nightline" ranked No. 1 in Total Viewers (1.813 million) during the week of November 17, 2014, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. "Nightline" has won the week in overall viewers for the 5th week in a row, outperforming CBS' "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (+387,000) and NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers" (+213,000).

In addition, "Nightline" beat CBS' "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" in Adults 25-54 (+228,000) and Adults 18-49 (+167,000).

"Nightline" saw double-digit increases week to week (1.550 million, 630,000 and 480,000, respectively on w/o 11/10/14) in Total Viewers (+17%) , Adults 25-54 (+21%) and Adults 18-49 (+20%), drawing its largest overall audience of the season.

"Nightline" also improved on the year-ago week (1.683 million, 716,000 and 565,000, respectively on w/o 11/18/13) across all key target demos: Total Viewers (+8%), Adults 25-54 (+7%) and Adults 18-49 (+2%).

"Nightline" claimed the No. 1 telecast of the week with its Thursday airing (11/20/14) in Total Viewers (2.091 million) , Adults 25-54 (949,000) and Adults 18-49 (755,000), beating every telecast of the week of CBS' "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" and NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers."

Season to date, ABC News' "Nightline" ranks No. 1 in Total Viewers (1.675 million) , outdelivering CBS' "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (+274,000) and NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers" (+116,000) .

ABC News' "Nightline" is anchored by Dan Harris, Dan Abrams, and Juju Chang. Roxanna Sherwood is executive producer, and Steven Baker is Senior Broadcast Producer. The program airs weeknights from 12:35-1:05 a.m., ET 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 November 17, 2014:

PROGRAM AVERAGES TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54(000)/Rtg A18-49(000)/Rtg

ABC "Nightline" 1,813,000 765,000/0.6 578,000/0.5

CBS "Late Late Show" 1,426,000 537,000/0.4 411,000/0.3

NBC "Late Night" 1,600,000 785,000/0.7 684,000/0.5

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD weeks of 11/17/14, 11/10/14 and 11/18/13. Live+SD: 2014-2015 Season (9/22 - 11/23/14) and 2013-2014 Season (9/23 - 11/24/14). Averages based on regular telecasts. "Nightline" premiered in its new time period in January 2013. *NBC's year-ago week averages based on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."