Broadcast TV’s morning shows were down in total viewers compared to the same week in 2017 . Those year-over-year losses hit double digits among the younger news demos, including adults 25-54.
ABC’s Good Morning America finished the week No. 1 in total viewers, out-performing its competition by +130,000 viewers. Using the most current Nielsen data for the 2017-2018 season to-date (9/25/2017 – 4/8/2018), GMA is now the most-watched morning show at this point of the season for the 6th consecutive year. It now leads Today by +2,000 total viewers.
That said, the ABC morning show was -7 percent in total viewers and -19 percent among demo viewers versus last year.
NBC’s Today topped Good Morning America in the key 25-54 demo last week, marking the 119th consecutive week it has achieved a No. 1 ranking in the measurement. According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, which is different from what ABC News uses to measure audience, Today is not only No. 1 in the demo, but it’s still barely No. 1 in total viewers this 2017-2018 season to-date. Today’s lead in that category is only +1,000 total viewers. Considering it had help from the Olympics in February, that’s not exactly an impressive margin.
Back to the most-recent week, Today was -4 percent in total viewers, but down a whopping -25 percent in demo viewers from last year.
CBS This Morning remained mired in third place, and remains down year-over-year. The program was -11 percent in total viewers, and -16 percent in demo viewers from last year.
The averages for the week of April 2, 2018:
Total Viewers: ABC: 4.051M / NBC: 3.921M / CBS: 3.305M
A25-54 viewers: ABC: 1.292M / NBC: 1.362M / CBS: 879k