On April 6, 2014, ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" averaged 2.752 million Total Viewers and 832,000 Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. For the 5th time in the last 7 Sundays, "This Week" ranked No. 1 in Adults 25-54, leading CBS' "Face the Nation" by 66,000 Adults 25-54 and NBC's "Meet the Press" by 102,000 Adults 25-54.
"This Week" improved on its year-ago telecast (2.500 million and 723,000, respectively on 4/7/13) by double-digits in both Total Viewers (+10%) and Adults 25-54 (+15%). In fact, "This Week" has turned in year-to-year increases for the last 10 weeks in both measures. Further, "This Week" stood as the only public affairs program to build on its year-ago Sunday performance in both measures as CBS' "Face the Nation" was down (-11%/-19%), while NBC's "Meet the Press" (+2%/-3%) and Fox's "Fox News Sunday" (+2%/-11%) were mixed.
Season to date, "This Week" is up in Total Viewers (+14%) and Adults 25-54 (+12%) versus its year-ago season averages. Growing in both measures for the 2nd year in a row, "This Week" is delivering its strongest performance in 5 years - since the 2008-09 season. In addition, "This Week" is up the most from the same point last season in both Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 versus CBS' "Face the Nation" (+3%/+4%), NBC's "Meet the Press" (-5%/-7%) and Fox's "Fox News Sunday" (+2%/-10%).
In addition, "This Week" leads NBC's "Meet the Press" this season in both Total Viewers (+80,000) and Adults 25-54 (+29,000), beating the NBC program during a season for the first time in 17 years in overall viewers and in 20 years in the key adult news demo - since the 1996-97 and the 1993-94 seasons, respectively.
Robin Sproul, Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, serves as the Executive in Charge of "This Week" and Jonathan Greenberger serves as the Executive Broadcast Producer.
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