Today and Good Morning America both averaged 4.604 million viewers last week.
NBC, ABC Morning Shows In Dead Heat
NEW YORK (AP) — During a tumultuous time in morning television, the competition between the “Today” show and “Good Morning America” can’t get any tighter.
The shows finished in a dead heat in the Nielsen ratings last week, both averaging 4.604 million viewers. It was the fifth time in 12 weeks that ABC’s “Good Morning America” had claimed victory, or a slice of victory, since snapping a “Today” winning streak that had stretched back to 1995.
NBC’s “Today” actually won Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the ratings last week.
But on Friday, the day after Ann Curry made her tearful farewell from “Today,” the NBC show was crushed by a 670,000-viewer margin.
Comments (1)
Dirk Lammers says:
July 6, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Ann’s farewell on Thursday was my last “Today Show”, too. Hello, GMA. Shame on NBC for the way they treated a loyal, long-time employee that has been an incredible team player and a strong, strong journalist. I am indeed done with “Today”. I loved Howie Mandel’s comment at the end of “America’s Got Talent” this past Monday night when he talked about the judges being able to bring back wild-card favorites and Howie said “and I want to bring back Ann Curry”.