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[04/30/26 - 02:17 PM]
ABC News Is #1 in Total Viewers Sunday Morning and in Late-Night
ABC News' "Nightline" ranks No. 1 in Total Viewers (931,000) for the week of April 20.

[via press release from ABC]

**Ratings Report for ABC News' "Nightline" and "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"

For the Week of April 20, 2026

ABC NEWS IS #1 IN TOTAL VIEWERS SUNDAY MORNING AND IN LATE-NIGHT

'This Week with George Stephanopoulos' Ranks #1 in Total Viewers for the 13th Consecutive Week, Marking the Program's Longest Run at No. 1 in More Than 2 ½ Years, and Stands as the Only Sunday Public Affairs Program To Grow Both Year to Year and Week to Week in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54

'Nightline' Wins the Week in Total Viewers, Improves on the Previous Week and Hits 4-Week High Across the Board

"This Week with George Stephanopoulos"

On Sunday, April 26, 2026, "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" ranked No. 1 in Total Viewers (2.802 million) for the 13th consecutive week, based on Live+Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings from Nielsen Media Research.

· "This Week" Total Viewer win marked the program's longest run at No. 1 in more than 2 ½ years - since 6/11-9/3/23.

· "This Week" posted increases week to week in Total Viewers (+3% - 2.802 million vs. 2.724 million) and Adults 25-54 (+17% - 419,000 vs. 357,000), hitting an 8-week high in the key Adult news demo - since 3/1/26.

· "This Week" improved on the year-ago Sunday in Total Viewers (+5% - 2.802 million vs. 2.673 million) and Adults 25-54 (+3% - 419,000 vs. 406,000), standing as the only Sunday public affairs program to grow year to year in both measures.

· Season to date, "This Week" ranks No. 1 in Total Viewers (2.799 million) for the 5th season in a row, leading NBC's "Meet the Press" (+181,000; vs. 2.618 million) and CBS' "Face the Nation" 1 and 2 (+49,000; vs. 2.750 million), based on Most Current Big Data+Panel Ratings.

· In fact, "This Week" is increasing its Total Viewer leads by double digits over both NBC (+63% - 181,000 vs. 111,000) and CBS (+20% - 49,000 vs. 41,000) compared to the same point last season. Further, "This Week" is delivering its largest overall viewer lead over NBC's "Meet the Press" in 30 years - since the 1995-1996 season.

· In addition, "This Week" is up in Total Viewers (2.799 million vs. 2.789 million).

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."

NOTE: CBS' numbers are based on averages for both "Face the Nation" and "Face the Nation-2." CBS' "Face the Nation" 1 and 2 began on 4/1/12.

SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 2026

TOTAL VIEWERS ADULTS 25-54 (000)/Rtg

ABC "THIS WEEK" 2,802,000 419,000/0.3

NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 2,503,000 484,000/0.4

CBS "FACE THE NATION" 1 & 2 2,756,000 350,000/0.3

FOX "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" 1,126,000 205,000/0.2

"Nightline"

ABC News' "Nightline" ranks No. 1 in Total Viewers (931,000) for the week of April 20, 2026, based on Live+Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings from Nielsen Media Research, defeating NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers."

· "Nightline" improved on the previous week in Total Viewers (+8% - 931,000 vs. 862,000), Adults 25-54 (+22% - 137,000 vs. 112,000) and Adults 18-49 (+22% - 96,000 vs. 79,000), hitting 4-week highs across the board - since w/o 3/23/26.

· "Nightline" was up year to year in Total Viewers (+8% - 931,000 vs. 862,000).

· Season to date, "Nightline" is up in Total Viewers (+1% - 982,000 vs. 971,000) versus the comparable weeks last season.

NOTE: On Friday (4/24/26), ABC's "Nightline" was retitled to "NL-ABC" and NBC's "Seth Meyers" was retitled to "Seth Meyers-SM." ABC's and NBC's weekly averages are based on four days (Monday-Thursday).

ABC News' "Nightline" is late-night television's prestigious, award-winning news program featuring the most powerful, in-depth stories that shape our lives and the world around us. It is anchored by Juju Chang and Byron Pitts. Eman Varoqua is executive producer. The program airs weeknights from 12:35-1:05 a.m. ET on ABC. "Nightline" has also produced numerous original documentaries available on ABC News' digital platforms, Disney+ and Hulu.

WEEK OF APRIL 20, 2026:

PROGRAM AVERAGES TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54(000)/RTG A18-49(000)/RTG

ABC's "Nightline" 931,000 137,000/0.1 96,000/0.1

NBC's "Late Night" 766,000 211,000/0.2 164,000/0.1

Source: Nielsen, Total Viewers and Adults 25-54; Live+SD for 4/26/26, 4/19/26 and 4/27/25 for "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." Beginning 9/29/25, "This Week" includes airings on ABCNL, including distributors such as YouTube and Roku. Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 National Live + Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings. Current Week (w/o 4/20/26), Previous Week (w/o 4/19/26) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 4/21/25) for "Nightline." Season to date: Most Current Data Stream: 2025-2026 Season (9/22/25 - 4/26/26) and 2024-2025 Season (9/23/25 - 4/27/26). Season averages based on Big Data Plus Panel ratings start with the 2023-2024 season. Beginning 12/26/22, averages are based on Big Data Plus Panel ratings. Beginning 8/31/20, national ratings also include Out-of-Home (OOH) viewing. Prior to 8/31/20, ratings did not include OOH viewing. Averages based on regular telecasts.





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