NBC's TODAY is No. 1 for 17 Straight Months in Key A25-54 Demo

NBC News' TODAY was the number-one morning show for the month of January topping ABC's "Good Morning America" in the key demo A25-54. The win marks TODAY's 17th straight month (57 straight weeks) in first place in the key demo, a first in four years, and its best January demo win over GMA in five years. TODAY also won last Wednesday outright, besting GMA in both total viewers and all demos. TODAY's A25-54 and A18-49 wins over GMA have reached five-year highs, season to date, and the total viewer gap between the two shows is 63% closer (-107,000 versus -290,000) versus last season. Additionally, TODAY won eight weeks in total viewers last year including the week of the presidential election, the month of December, and the third quarter.

TODAY reached more consumers than GMA on Yahoo with over 37.9 million unique visitors turning to TODAY.com in December for exclusive interviews and the latest lifestyle, parenting and entertainment news, according to recent data from comScore. For 36 consecutive months (45 out of the last 46), TODAY.com has reached more mobile consumers than GMA on Yahoo.

TODAY.com mobile unique visitors have grown +5% over the last 12 months while GMA on Yahoo declined -20% for the same period. TODAY.com has gone from parity in mobile unique visitors in September 2013 to over 4.3x GMA on Yahoo's mobile visitor number in December 2016.

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