ABC's THIS WEEK Takes Adults 25-49 for Second Week

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"

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Sunday, February 1, 2015 TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54 (000)/Rtg

ABC "THIS WEEK" 3,452,000 1,244,000/1.0

NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 3,334,000 1,123,000/0.9

CBS "FACE THE NATION" 3,820,000 1,106,000/0.9

CBS "FACE THE NATION-2" 2,486,000 711,000/0.6

FOX "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" 1,470,000 493,000/0.4

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI (Total Viewers and Adults 25-54); Live + SD for 2/1/15, 1/25/15 and 2/2/14 or as dated. Most Current: 2014-2015 Season (9/22/14 - 2/1/15) and 2013-2014 Season (9/23/13 - 2/2/14). Averages based on regular telecasts.

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