ABC’s Good Morning America has won its first television sweeps month in nearly 20 years, reflecting its newfound status as America’s No. 1 morning show. Nielsen ratings released today showed that GMA averaged 5.31 million viewers in November, 466,000 more than NBC’s Today show.
Tom Hanks inadvertently said a very bad word during an interview Friday morning on Good Morning America. He quickly apologized.
Viewer defections are the chief reason for television’s changing fortunes in morning news, where ABC’s Good Morning America has ended NBC’s epic 17-year winning streak on Today. ABC is growing — GMA has 110,000 more viewers each day this year than last — but not as much as NBC is slipping (437,000 viewers a day since last year).
Good Morning America is beginning the new television season as the No. 1 morning show in America, topping the Today show. Nielsen ratings for September, released today, confirm the television sea change that started in the spring and swept through in the summer: NBC’s Today, the No. 1 morning show for 16 years in a row, is now No. 2 to ABC’s GMA.
As Today sinks in the ratings, Matt Lauer has become an “anchor animal” behind the scenes, NBC sources say, adding that he’s taken control of the show and berates staff who are no longer allowed to even mention rival Good Morning America around him.
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The increasingly intense competition between NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America took its latest twist last week when the shows produced — in the Nielsen rating sample anyway — a flat-footed, photo-finish tie in the audience measure that counts the most among advertisers.
NBC’s Today was beaten last week by ABC archrival Good Morning America by 357,000 viewers. GMA drew an average of 4.57 million viewers, compared with 4.21 million for Today, according to preliminary Nielsen figures released Monday.
Today and Good Morning America both averaged 4.604 million viewers last week.
NBC’s Today remained No. 1 in the month of May, winning a nail-biting competition with ABC’s Good Morning America. But the tiny margin between the two shows for the month — 13,000 viewers — showed just how close the morning TV contest has become this spring.
With the recent success of Good Morning America, ABC is launching a p.m. spinoff as a summer experiment. The hour-long Good Afternoon America is scheduled for a nine-week run starting July 9.
For the second time in three weeks, ABC’s Good Morning America has beaten NBC rival Today, and this time Matt Lauer wasn’t on vacation. GMA averaged 5.297 million total viewers the week ended April 23, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers, compared to 5.131 million for Today, outdrawing its rival by 166,000.
One week after ABC’s Good Morning America snaps Today‘s 852-week winning streak, the NBC show is back on top.
The final score is in for last week’s ratings race between NBC’s Today show and ABC’s Good Morning America, and the winner is ABC. ABC’s morning program surpassed NBC’s by 31,000 total viewers for the week, marking its first full-week victory over NBC since 1995.
High Hopes Among ABC Affils For P.M. ‘GMA’
The network will replace the just-canceled The Revolution with a test run of an afternoon version of Good Morning America under the purview of the network’s entertainment division.
Nielsen says Good Morning America drew 5.147 million viewers last week, beating Today by a narrow margin of 13,000 viewers. Those are the preliminary figures released today. The final audience numbers are out Thursday.
April’s morning showdown concludes with Good Morning America shrinking the gap and the final tally standing in Today‘s favor, with four days of victories among total viewers and a sweep with adults 25-54.
The showdown this week between the Today show and Good Morning America tilted in ABC’s favor for the first time on Wednesday, when GMA beat its NBC rival in the ratings by 87,000 viewers.
It’s a one-week role for the former co-host of Today, the main rival to GMA in morning television. Couric will be filling in for Robin Roberts, who has the week off.
ABC’s ‘GMA’ Creeps Up On NBC’s ‘Today’
ABC’s Good Morning America won’t surpass NBC’s Today as the No. 1 morning show this season. But that day may be coming closer. The longtime No. 2 is making strides this season toward catching Today, which has held its top position for an amazing 16 years.
As CBS goes serious for sunrise, stars at rival networks grumble about the fluffy fare.
Stephanopoulos Too Short For Morning TV?
George Stephanopoulos could lose his “Good Morning America” anchor chair within a year to the news reader who towers over him … this according to network sources. The buzz at ABC is that Josh Elliott — a former ESPN sports anchor who has been the GMA news reader since March — is on the fast track for the anchor seat.
The NBC show, which saw Ann Curry replace Meredith Vieira two months ago, still leads ABC but only by about 500,000 total viewers.
ABC on Friday apologized to its viewers for Nicki Minaj’s wardrobe slip up that exposed the singer’s bare breast during her summer concert performance on morning news show Good Morning America.
Much like their evening news counterparts, America’s morning shows are on the rise as well. In the just finished second quarter, NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS’s The Early Show added a combined 1.2 million viewers compared to the same period last year.
Get Ready For Katie Vs. ‘Today’
Today co-hosts Matt Lauer and Ann Curry could soon find themselves at war for morning ratings against their former colleague, Katie Couric, when she lands at ABC.As part of a deal being negotiated between Couric and ABC for a daytime syndicated talk show, she’ll also be making “strategic guest appearances” on Good Morning America that will put her in a direct rivalry with Lauer, sources say.
Josh Elliott Replacing Juju Chang On ‘GMA’
By halting production on the eighth season of Two and a Half Men, CBS Corp. and Warner Bros. are turning away from a proven hit with both viewers and advertisers.
