{"id":339281,"date":"2010-02-19T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4df253ef0120a8b6cd2e970b"},"modified":"2010-02-19T11:11:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T16:11:45","slug":"ratings-report-for-abc-news%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cnightline%e2%80%9d-for-the-week-of-february-8-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/339281","title":{"rendered":"Ratings Report for ABC News\u2019 \u201cNightline\u201d For the Week of February 8, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<h4 align=\"left\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">\u201cNIGHTLINE\u201d CONTINUES GROWTH TREND: INCREASES +11% AMONG TOTAL VIEWERS AND +16% AMONG A25-54 YEAR TO YEAR <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"left\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"left\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">\u201cNIGHTLINE\u201d POSTS BEST DEMO DELIVERY SINCE NOVEMBER 2008<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"left\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"left\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">\u201cNIGHTLINE\u201d TIES \u201cLETTERMAN\u201d IN A18-49 RATING <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"left\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"left\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 13.2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">ABC News \u201cNightline\u201d placed second among Adults 25-54, Adults 18-49, and Total Viewers for the week of February 8, 2010, according to Nielsen Media Research. \u201cNightline\u201d also tied CBS\u2019 \u201cLate Show with David Letterman\u201d<\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"> in the A18-49 rating (1.2).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160; <\/span>Additionally, \u201cNightline\u201d continues to experience growth. <span style=\"COLOR: black\">Among Total Viewers, \u201cNightline\u201d grew for the fourth week in a row. With <strong>4.18 million<\/strong>, the program increased +<strong>11% <\/strong>compared to the same week last year<\/span> while NBC\u2019s \u201cTonight Show with Conan O\u2019Brien\u201d in comparison decreased -59%. Week to week, \u201cNightline\u201d increased <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">+3%<\/strong> among Total Viewers. \u201cNightline\u201d is solidly in second place season to date among Total Viewers and Adults 25-54<span style=\"COLOR: black\">.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160; <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13.2pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 13.2pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">Among Adults 25-54, \u201cNightline\u201d grew for the third straight week and posted its best demo delivery since November 2008. Averaging <\/span><strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">1.89<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"> <strong>million <\/strong><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">(1.5 rating)<\/span>, \u201cNightline\u201d <span style=\"COLOR: black\">increased <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">+<span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">16%<\/span><\/strong> compared to the same week last year, while <\/span>\u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d declined -44%. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160;<\/span>Week to week, <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160;<\/span>\u201cNightline\u201d increased <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">+6%<\/strong> among A25-54 and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">+9%<\/strong> among A18-49.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160;<\/span>\u201cNightline\u201d outperformed \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d thirty-three of the last thirty-four weeks among Total Viewers. Season to date, <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160;<\/span>\u201cNightline\u201d has outperformed \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d among A25-54 seventeen times.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160; <\/span>For the week, \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d dropped to its lowest total viewer delivery since at least the 91\/92 season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">Last week, \u201cNightline\u201d featured a profile on the outlaw at the center of America\u2019s longest running stand-off, an update on the Somer Thompson investigation, and continued coverage of the massive snowstorms that impacted much of the country.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">*Note: \u201cNightline\u201d was based on a 4-day average (Monday-Thursday); \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d was also based on a 4-day average (Monday-Thursday) due to the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Friday night.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">ABC News\u2019 <span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">\u201cNightline\u201d<\/span> is anchored by Cynthia McFadden, Terry Moran and Martin Bashir. John Donvan and Vicki Mabrey are correspondents. James Goldston is the executive producer. The program airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m., ET on the ABC Television Network.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p><span style=\"text-decoration: none\">&#0160;<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p><span style=\"text-decoration: none\">&#0160;<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">(Week of February 8, 2010)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">&#0160;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">\t\t\t&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<span style=\"mso-tab-count: 2\">\t\t\t\t\t <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160; <\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TOTAL VIEWERS<\/span>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">A25-54(000)\/&#0160;Rtg<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">&#0160; <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A18-49(000)\/&#0160;Rtg<\/span><\/strong>&#0160;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">ABC&#0160;\u201cNightline\u201d\t\t&#0160;4,180,000\t&#0160;1,890,000\/ 1.5<span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">\t\t&#0160; <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160; <\/span>1,570,000\/ 1.2<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">CBS \u201cLate Show\u201d\t\t&#0160;4,980,000\t&#0160;2,070,000\/ <span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">1.7<span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">\t\t&#0160; <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160; <\/span><\/span>1,580,000\/ 1<span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">.2<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">NBC \u201cTonight\u201d\t\t&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;2,030,000\t&#0160;1,190,000\/ <span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">1.0<span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">\t\t&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160; <\/span>1,100,<\/span>000\/ <span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">.8<strong><o:p><\/o:p><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13.2pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13.2pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">Source:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160; <\/span>&#8211; The Nielsen Company.<span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\"> NTI (Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 &amp; Adults 18-49 Live + SD weeks of 2\/8\/10, 2\/1\/10 &amp; 2\/9\/09.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160; <\/span>&#0160; Live +7 (where available) and Live +SD for STD (9\/21\/09-2\/14\/10)<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNIGHTLINE\u201d CONTINUES GROWTH TREND: INCREASES +11% AMONG TOTAL VIEWERS AND +16% AMONG A25-54 YEAR TO YEAR &#0160; \u201cNIGHTLINE\u201d POSTS BEST DEMO DELIVERY SINCE NOVEMBER 2008 &#0160; \u201cNIGHTLINE\u201d TIES \u201cLETTERMAN\u201d IN A18-49 RATING &#0160; &#0160; ABC News \u201cNightline\u201d placed second among Adults 25-54, Adults 18-49, and Total Viewers for the week of February 8, 2010, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}