"This Week" is Outdelivering NBC's "Meet the Press" for the 2nd Year in a Row, Leading the NBC Program by its Largest Margins During a Season in 18 Years in Total Viewers

"This Week" is Showing its Strongest News Demo Performance in 5 Years

December 28, 2014

ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" averaged 2.220 million Total Viewers and 883,000 Adults 25-54 on December 28, 2014, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. "This Week" led NBC's "Meet the Press" (2.881 million) by 339,000 Total Viewers to post its 2nd-largest margin of victory this season.

"This Week" posted increases in Total Viewers week to week (+7% - 3.018 million for 12/21/14) and year to year (+5% - 3.069 million 12/29/13). In fact, hitting a season high in Total Viewers, "This Week" turned in its most-watched telecast in 9 months - since 3/23/14.

Season to date, "This Week" is up in Adults 25-54 (+4%) versus the same point last season to its strongest news demo performance in 5 years - since the 2009-10 season. Competitively, "This Week" is outdelivering NBC's "Meet the Press" for the 2nd year in a row, leading the NBC program by its largest margins during a season in 18 years in Total Viewers (+145,000) and in 21 years in Adults 25-54 (+92,000) - since the 1996-97 and the 1993-94 seasons, respectively.

4Q 2014

For the 4th Quarter 2014, "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" averaged 2.848 million Total Viewers and 840,000 Adults 25-54, based on Most Current Data from Nielsen Media Research.

For the 2nd year in a row, "This Week" beat NBC's "Meet the Press" (2.703 million and 748,000, respectively) in Total Viewers (+145,000) and Adults 25-54 (+92,000) during the 4th quarter, leading the NBC program by its largest news demo margin during any quarter in 17 years and biggest in overall viewers during a 4th quarter in 18 years - since 3Q97 and 4Q96, respectively.

Further, "This Week" has beaten "Meet the Press" in the last 6 quarters in both Total Viewers and Adults 25-54.

"This Week" improved on the year-ago quarter in Adults 25-54 (+4% - 806,000 for 4Q13) to deliver its strongest 4th quarter performance in 5 years - since 4Q09. In addition, "This Week" grew the most in in the key adult news demo versus the year-earlier quarter compared to CBS' "Face the Nation" (+1%), NBC's "Meet the Press" (-7%) and Fox's "Fox News Sunday" (+1%).

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"

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Sunday, December 28, 2014 TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54 (000)/Rtg ABC "THIS WEEK" 3,220,000 883,000/0.7 NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 2,881,000 900,000/0.8 CBS "FACE THE NATION" 3,868,000 948,000/0.8 CBS "FACE THE NATION-2? 1,980,000 490,000/0.4 FOX "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" 1,260,000 326,000/0.3

4th Quarter 2014 TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54 (000)/Rtg ABC "THIS WEEK" 2,848,000 840,000/0.7 NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 2,703,000 748,000/0.6 CBS "FACE THE NATION" 3,378,000 943,000/0.8 CBS "FACE THE NATION-2? 1,799,000 490,000/0.4 FOX "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" 1,309,000 415,000/0.3

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI (Total Viewers and Adults 25-54); Live + SD for 12/28/14, 12/21/14 and 12/29/13 or as dated. Most Current: 2014-2015 Season (9/22 - 12/28/14) and 2013-2014 Season (9/23 - 12/29/14). 4Q14: 9/22 - 12/28/14. 4Q13: 9/23 - 12/29/13. Averages based on regular telecasts.

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