"This Week" is #1 in Adults 25-54 for Second Consecutive Week

"This Week"Delivers Best News Demo Performance in Nearly 6 Years

"This Week" Posts Top Adults 25-54 Telecast of the Season Among Any of the Sunday Public Affairs Programs

"This Week" Hits Season Highs and Grows by Double Digits Week-to-Week in Total Viewers (+26%) and Adults 25-54 (+34%)

"This Week" Increases by Double-Digits Year-to-Year in Adults 25-54 (+22%)

ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" ranked No. 1 for the 2nd straight week in Adults 25-54 (1.244 million) on February 1, 2015, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. In fact, "This Week" saw wider margins of victory compared to the previous Sunday (1/25/15) over both NBC's "Meet the Press" (+30% - 121,000 vs. 93,000) and CBS' "Face the Nation" (+42% - 138,000 vs. 97,000) . Further, "This Week" delivered the top Adult 25-54 telecast of the season among any of the Sunday public affair programs.

Surging over the previous week (2.740 million and 931,000, respectively, for 1/25/15) in Total Viewers (+26%) and Adults 25-54 (+34%) to hit season highs, "This Week" drew its largest overall audience in nearly 1 year and best news demo performance in nearly 6 years - since 3/16/14 and 3/1/09, respectively.

For the 2nd consecutive week, "This Week" built on the same Sunday last year by double-digits in Adults 25-54 (+22% - 1.244 million vs. 1.017 million on 2/2/14) .

Growing for the 3rd season in a row, " This Week" is up in Adults 25-54 (+6% - 877,000 vs. 831,000) season to date versus the same point last season to its strongest news demo performance in 6 years - since the 2008-09 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 (+76,000) and in 22 years in Adults 25-54 (+84,000) - since the 1996-97 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"