Press release - Ratings
June 21, 2022
‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos’ Ranks No. 1 in Adults 25-54 for the 7th Time in the Last 8 Weeks
**Ratings Report for ABC News’ “This Week”
For Sunday, June 19, 2022
‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos’ Ranks No. 1 in Adults 25-54 for the 7th Time in the Last 8 Weeks
‘This Week’ Beats ‘Meet the Press’ in Total Viewers
‘This Week’ Improves on the Previous Week in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 and Increases Year to Year in Adults 25-54
Season to Date, ‘This Week’ Is Ranking No. 1 in Adults 25-54, Leading CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’ and NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ for the First Time in 28 Years
“This Week with George Stephanopoulos” ranked No. 1 in Adults 25-54 on Sunday, June 20, 2022, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. “This Week” took the top spot for the 7th time in the last 8 weeks.
In addition, “This Week” beat “Meet the Press” in Total Viewers.
“This Week” improved on the previous week in Total Viewers (+5% – 2.402 million vs. 2.289 million) and Adults 25-54 (+13% – 521,000 vs. 463,000).
“This Week” increased year to year in Adults 25-54 (+11% – 521,000 vs. 469,000).
Season to date, “This Week” is ranking No. 1 in Adults 25-54, leading CBS’ “Face the Nation” and NBC’s “Meet the Press” at this point of the season for the first time in 28 years — since the 1993-94 season.
“This Week” is leading NBC’s “Meet the Press” in Total Viewers season to date for the first time in 7 years — since the 2014-2015 season. In addition, “This Week” is cutting its season margin with “Face the Nation” by 18% (286,000 vs. 348,000) to its smallest gap in 12 years — since the 2009-2010 season.
George Stephanopoulos is anchor, Martha Raddatz is chief global affairs correspondent and co-anchor, and Jonathan Karl is chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of “This Week.” Dax Tejera is executive producer of the broadcast.
Sunday, June 19, 2022 TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54 (000)/Rtg
ABC “THIS WEEK” 2,402,000 521,000/0.4
NBC “MEET THE PRESS” 2,227,000 431,000/0.4
CBS “FACE THE NATION” 2,562,000 461,000/0.4
CBS “FACE THE NATION-2” 1,997,000 330,000/0.3
FOX “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” 903,000 226,000/0.2
Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI (Total Viewers and Adults 25-54); Live + SD for 6/19/22, 6/12/22 and 6/20/21 or as dated. Most Current: 2021 -2022 Season (9/20/21 – 6/19/22) and 2020 -2021 Season (9/21/20 – 6/20/21). *Beginning 8/31/20, National ratings also include Out of Home (OOH) viewing. Prior to 8/31/20, ratings do not include OOH viewing. Nielsen ratings for “This Week” include additional airings in select markets. Averages based on regular telecasts.
ABC News Media Relations
Denise Horn
denise.horn@abc.com
Pons Rongavill
ponciano.rongavilla@disney.com