Channel 7 Is Top Station in New York and The Nation in Nov'05 Nielsen Sweeps

Channel 7 Is Top Station in New York and The Nation in Nov'05 Nielsen Sweeps

"Eyewitness News" Wins Every News Race: 5AM, 6AM, 12PM, 5PM, 6PM AND 11PM.

"Desperate Housewives," "Grey's Anatomy" and "Lost" All Rank Within Top 5 Primetime Programs In Tri-State Area.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- WABC-TV is New York's highest-rated broadcast station for the thirteenth consecutive rating period, delivering a 4.8 rating/11 share in DMA Households, Monday-Sunday Sign-On to Sign-Off in Nielsen's Nov'05 sweeps. With each rating point representing 73,755 Tri-State area TV households, Channel 7 attracts a larger audience than does any other station in the nation.

Equally impressive is the "Eyewitness News" franchise's DMA HH win in every local news race, a feat last accomplished in this market in Feb'98, and coincidentally, also by "Eyewitness News." Across the day, "Eyewitness News" is viewed by more New York Adults 25-54 than WNBC-TV's "NewsChannel 4" or WCBS-TV's "CBS 2 News."**

Other highlights for ABC/7 in the Nov'05 sweeps are "Desperate Housewives", "Grey's Anatomy" and "Lost" respectively ranking #1, #2 and #4 in Primetime within Tri-State area households.

WABC-TV, Channel 7, is the ABC, Inc. Owned Television Station in New York City.

NOV'05 NOV'05 NOV'05 NOV'05
Program DMA HH RANK A25-54 RANK
RTG/SHR RTG/SHR
Sign-on to Sign-off M-Su 7:00-1:00am 4.8/11 #1 2.1/ 9 #1
Eyewitness News
This Morning 5am M-F 5:00-6:00am 2.1/11 #1 0.9/ 9 #2
Eyewitness News This
Morning 6am M-F 6:00-7:00am 3.5/15 #1 1.7/13 #1
Good Morning
America M-F 7:00-9:00am 4.0/14 #1 1.7/12 #2
Live! with Regis
& Kelly M-F 9:00-10:00am 4.9/18 #1 2.3/16* #1
Tony Danza M-F 10:00-11:00am 3.3/13 #1 1.3/ 9* #2
The View M-F 11:00am-12:00pm 3.3/12 #1 2.0/14* #1
Eyewitness News
at Noon M-F 12:00-12:30pm 4.1/15 #1 1.9/12* #1
Afternoon Rotation M-F 12:00-4:00pm 3.9/12 #1 2.6/15* #1
Oprah Winfrey M-F 4:00-5:00pm 8.4/21 #1 5.0/25* #1
Eyewitness News 5pm M-F 5:00-6:00pm 7.1/16 #1 2.3/12 #1
Eyewitness News 6pm M-F 6:00-6:30pm 6.5/13 #1 2.2/ 9 #1
Eyewitness News 6pm M-Su 6:00-6:30pm 6.3/12 #1 2.1/ 8 #1
ABC's World News
Tonight M-F 6:30-7:00pm 6.7/13 #1 2.4/ 9 #1
Jeopardy! M-F 7:00-7:30pm 8.9/16 #1 2.6/ 9 #1
Wheel of Fortune M-F 7:30-8:00pm 8.4/14 #1 2.7/ 8 #1
Primetime M-Sa 8:00-11:00pm/
Su 7:00-11:00pm 7.9/12 #2 4.7/11 #1
Eyewitness News 11pm Tu-F 11:00-11:35pm 7.4/13 #1 3.7/10 #2
Eyewitness News 11pm Tu-Su 11:00-11:35pm 7.5/14 #1 3.9/11 #1

* Demo shown is Women 25-54

** Aggregate of 5AM, 6AM, 5PM, 6PM and 11PM news races in which all 3 stations compete.

Source: NY Nielsen LPM Overnights 11/3/05-11/30/05

FINAL NIELSEN AVERAGES

NOV'05 NOV'04
DMA HH DMA HH
MON.- FRI. PROGRAMMING RTG/SHR RTG/SHR
WABC-TV M-Su 7am-1am 4.8/11 4.6/11
WCBS-TV M-Su 7am-1am 3.5/ 8 3.8/ 9
WNBC-TV M-Su 7am-1am 3.8/ 9 4.3/10
WNYW-TV M-Su 7am-1am 2.3/ 5 2.3/ 5
WPIX-TV M-Su 7am-1am 2.0/ 5 2.3/ 5
WWOR-TV M-Su 7am-1am 1.3/ 3 1.3/ 3

WABC Eyewtns News-Early 5-6am 2.1/11 1.9/12
WCBS CBS2 News Morning 5-6am 1.2/ 6 1.0/ 6
WNBC Today New York 1 5-6am 1.9/10 1.7/11
WNYW Good Day Wakeup 5-6am 0.9/ 5 0.6/ 4
WPIX WB11 Morning News 5-6am 1.3/ 7 1.1/ 7

WABC Eyewtns News-Morn 6-7am 3.5/15 3.3/14
WCBS CBS2 News Morning 6-7am 1.6/ 6 1.2/ 5
WNBC Today New York 2 6-7am 3.2/13 3.3/14
WNYW GDNY 1st Edition 6-7am 1.8/ 8 1.9/ 8
WPIX WB11 Morning News 6-7am 1.4/ 6 1.3/ 6

WABC Good Morning America 4.0/14 3.6/12
WCBS CBS Early Show 7 & 730am 1.1/ 4 1.4/ 5
WNBC Today Show 3.9/13 5.4/18
WNYW Good Day NY 1.8/ 6 2.0/ 7
WPIX WB11 Morning News 1.5/ 5 1.2/ 4
WABC Live! With Regis & Kelly 9am 4.9/18 4.2/16
WABC Tony Danza 10am 3.3/13 3.7/13
WABC The View 11am 3.3/12 4.2/15
WCBS ET/Insider 9am/9:30am 0.9/ 4 1.1/ 4*
WNBC Today Show 2 9am 2.2/ 8 3.3/12
WNBC Ellen 10am 2.9/11 2.8/10
WNBC Martha Stewart 11am 1.6/ 6 1.0/ 4*
WNYW Tyra Banks 9am 1.0/ 4 1.1/ 4*

WABC Eyewitness News at Noon 4.1/15 4.7/16
WCBS CBS2 News Noon 2.9/10 4.3/14
WNYW Fox 5 Live 1130am 1.2/ 4 1.1/ 4
WABC Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 3.6/13 4.4/15

WABC Oprah Winfrey 8.4/21 7.8/19
WCBS People's Court 2.8/ 7 2.5/ 6
WNBC Judge Judy 3.4/ 8 4.3/11
WCBS Dr Phil 3pm 3.9/11 3.7/11
WNBC Judge Joe Brown 3pm 1.9/ 5 2.9/ 8

WABC 5pm Eyewitness News 7.1/16 6.9/15
WCBS CBS2 News at 5 2.7/ 6 2.7/ 6
WNBC Live at 5 4.8/11 5.5/12
WNYW Fox5 News at 5 1.0/ 2 1.7/ 4

FINAL NIELSEN AVERAGES
NOV'05 NOV'04
DMA HH DMA HH
MON.- FRI. PROGRAMMING RTG/SHR RTG/SHR

WABC 6pm Eyewitness News 6.5/13 6.9/14
WCBS CBS2 News at 6 3.3/ 7 2.8/ 6
WNBC NewsChannel 4 at 6 5.1/10 5.4/11
WNYW Fox5 News at 6 1.1/ 2 1.5/ 3

WABC ABC World News Tonight 6.7/13 7.2/13
WCBS CBS Evening News 3.3/ 6 2.5/ 5
WNBC NBC Nightly News 5.3/10 5.6/10

WABC Jeopardy! 8.9/16 10.6/18
WABC Wheel of Fortune 8.4/14 9.5/16
WCBS Insider 3.4/ 6 2.8/ 5
WCBS Entertainment Tonight 4.0/ 7 3.4/ 6
WNBC Extra 3.7/ 7 4.1/ 7
WNBC Access Hollywood 3.2/ 5 4.1/ 7
WNYW The Simpsons 3.4/ 6 3.5/ 6
WNYW Seinfeld 3.1/ 5 4.0/ 7
WWOR King of Queens 2.5/ 4 2.8/ 5
WWOR King of Queens 2.7/ 5 2.1/ 3*
WPIX Friends 2.7/ 5 3.0/ 5
WPIX Everybody Loves Raymond 3.4/ 6 4.2/ 7

WABC M-Su. Prime 7.9/12 7.0/11
WCBS M-Su. Prime 8.5/13 8.6/13
WNBC M-Su. Prime 7.0/11 8.3/13

WABC 11pm Eyewtns News Tu-F 7.4/13 6.7/12
WCBS CBS2 News at 11 M-F 5.4/10 6.2/11
WNBC NewsChannel 4 at 11 M-F 7.2/13 7.2/13

WABC 11pm Eyewtns News T-Su 7.5/14 6.5/12
WCBS CBS2 News at 11 M-Su 5.2/ 9 5.7/10
WNBC NewsChannel 4 at 11 M-Su 6.8/12 6.8/12

Source: NY Overnights: Nielsen 11/3/05-11/30/05 and 11/4/04-12/1/04

Source: WABC-TV

CONTACT: Pat Liguori, Research, of WABC-TV, +1-212-456-3406

Web site: http://www.abc.com/

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