‘TODAY’ Continues To Close Ratings Gap With GMA

NEW YORK – October 16, 2014 – NBC’s TODAY continues to gain momentum and deliver significant ratings growth.  For the week of October 6, TODAY posted its narrowest total viewer and A25-54 viewer gaps with GMA in five weeks.  TODAY also tremendously reduced GMA’s leads in both total viewers (by 14%) and A25-54 viewers (by 40%), week-to-week.  TODAY was the only morning news broadcast to post across-the-board, week-to-week growth in total viewers (+2%, or +99k), rating A18-49 (+10%), and rating A25-54 (+7%).

Year-to-date, TODAY has narrowed the total viewer gap with GMA by 10% versus the same period last year. TODAY ranks as the #1 morning news broadcast in A18-49 year-to-date.

TODAY HIGHLIGHTS:

• TODAY was the only morning news broadcast to post week-to-week growth in total viewers (+2%, or +99,000), rating W/A18-49 (+7%/+10%), and rating W/A25-54 (+5%/+7%)
• Week-to-week, TODAY reduced GMA’s leads in both total viewers (by 14%) and A25-54 viewers (by 40%)
• TODAY had its closest total viewer and A25-54 viewer gaps with GMA in five weeks
• In the 2014 calendar year-to-date, TODAY is the #1 morning news program among Women/Men/Adults 18-49 viewers
• Year-to-date, TODAY has narrowed the total viewer gap with GMA by 10% versus the same period last year.
• TODAY was also the only program to see gains versus its 4Q’14-to-date average in total viewers (+3%), A18-49 viewers (+6%), and A25-54 viewers (+4%)
• TODAY averaged 4.599 million total viewers, +46% (+1.457 million) ahead of CBS This Morning
• TODAY averaged 1.805 million A25-54 viewers, leading CBS by +86% (+833,000)
• TODAY’s 1.5 A25-54 rating was +88% (+7 tenths) ahead of CBS
• TODAY was the #1 morning news program with 1.441 million A18-49 viewers, +1% (+15,000) more than GMA and +115% (+770,000) more than CBS

RATINGS DATA:

Week of October 6

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NBC’s TODAY is the news program that informs, entertains, inspires and sets the agenda each morning for Americans. Airing live from 7 am to 11 am ET, TODAY reaches more than 5 million people every day through its broadcast, and millions more through TODAY.com, the TODAY app, and social media platforms. Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker, Natalie Morales, Willie Geist, Tamron Hall, Carson Daly, Hoda Kotb, and Kathie Lee Gifford are the anchors and hosts, Jamie Horowitz is the SVP and general manager, and Don Nash is the executive producer.