“This Week” Ranks No. 1 in Adults 25-54 for Sunday, June 5, 2016

— -- ABC News’ “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” stood as Sunday’s No. 1 public affairs program in Adults 25-54 (960,000) on June 5, 2016, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. “This Week” beat NBC’s “Meet the Press” (748,000) by 212,000 and CBS’ “Face the Nation” (934,000) by 26,000.

“This Week” delivered double-digit increases week to week (2.315 million and 650,000, respectively, for 5/29/16) in both Total Viewers (+38%) and Adults 25-54 (+48%), posting its best performance in the key adult news demo in 4 weeks – since 5/8/16.

“This Week” also scored double-digit gains on the year-ago Sunday (2.640 million and 851,000, respectively, on 6/7/15) in both Total Viewers (+21%) and Adults 25-54 (+13%).

Season to date, “This Week” leads CBS’ “Face the Nation” by 21,000 Adults 25-54 (952,000 vs. 931,000), beating the CBS program by its largest news demo margin in 8 years – since the 2007-08 season.

“This Week” is improving in both Total Viewers (+16% - 3.286 million vs. 2.841 million) and Adults 25-54 (+9% - 952,000 vs. 875,000) versus its year-ago season averages. In fact, “This Week” is drawing its largest overall audience in 17 years and posting its strongest news demo performance in 7 years – since the 1998-99 and 2008-09 seasons, respectively.

NOTE: Due to the French Open, “Meet the Press” was retitled to “Meet the Press-MTP” and the telecast is excluded from the season averages.

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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