“Nightline” is #1 in Total Viewers

— -- “Nightline” Grows Week-to-Week in All Key Target Demos: Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49

“Nightline” Outperforms CBS in All Three Key Demos

Season to Date “Nightline” Leads CBS Across the Board

ABC News’ “Nightline” ranked No. 1 in Total Viewers (1.597 million) during the week of February 1, 2016, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. “Nightline” led CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (1.206 million) by 391,000 and NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (1.452 million) by 145,000.

In addition, “Nightline” beat the CBS program in Adults 25-54 (+123,000 – 616,000 vs. 493,000) and Adults 18-49 (+65,000 – 445,000 vs. 380,000).

“Nightline” turned in week-to-week gains (1.441 million, 549,000 and 425,000, respectively, on w/o 1/25/16) in all key target demos: Total Viewers (+11%), Adults 25-54 (+12%) and Adults 18-49 (+5%). In fact, “Nightline” delivered its most-watched week since November and best performance in the key adult news demo since December – since weeks of 11/23/15 and 12/21/15, respectively.

“Nightline” aired the Top 2 telecasts of the week with its Thursday (1.761 million on 2/4/16) and Friday (1.708 million on 2/5/16) airings, beating every telecast of the week of CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden” and NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”

Season to date, “Nightline” leads CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden” across the board: Total Viewers (+329,000), Adults 25-54 (+111,000) and Adults 18-49 (+57,000).

ABC News’ “Nightline” is anchored by Dan Harris, Juju Chang and Byron Pitts. Roxanna Sherwood is executive producer, and Steven Baker is senior broadcast producer. The program airs weeknights from 12:35-1:05 a.m. EST 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.

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD weeks of 2/1/16, 1/25/16 and 2/2/15. Most Current: 2015-2016 Season (9/21/15 – 2/7/16) and 2014-2015 Season (9/22/14 – 2/8/15). Averages based on regular telecasts. “Nightline” premiered in its new time period in January 2013. “Seth Meyers” premiered in February 2014. “James Corden” premiered in March 2015.