“This Week” Continues to Close Gaps with “Meet The Press” – Narrows Total Viewing Gap by 69% and Demo Gap by 70% Season to Date

“This Week” is #2 Season-to-Date Among Total Viewers

 

According to Nielsen Media Research, ABC News “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on Sunday, January 10, 2010 closed the total viewing gap with NBC’s “Meet the Press” by 69% (380,000 in 2010 vs. 1,210,000 in 2009) season to date.  Among the key Adults 25-54 demographic, ABC closed the gap with NBC by 70% (140,000 in 2010 vs. 460,000 in 2009).   Season-to-date, “This Week” is averaging 2.77 million Total Viewers, maintaining its second place rank for the season so far,  outperforming CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

 


Guests on last Sunday’s show included White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer. On the roundtable: George Will, Liz Cheney, Bloomberg’s Al Hunt, Judy Woodruff of the PBS Newshour, and former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

 

Ian Cameron is the executive producer. The program airs Sundays on the ABC Television Network.

 

(Sunday, January 10, 2010)   TOTAL VIEWERS    A25-54 MM/Rtg

ABC “THIS WEEK”    2,750,000    790,000/.6

NBC “MEET THE PRESS”       3,520,000 1,130,000/.9

CBS “FACE THE NATION” 2,980,000    850,000/.7

FOX “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” 1,210,000    510,000/.4

 

Source: NTI –A25-54 & Total Viewers – Week 1/4/10 Live +SD.  Live +7 (where available) & Live +SD for STD: 9/21/09-1/10/10 & 9/22/08-1/11/09