The numbers are in for the first week of Kelly Ripa’s morning show with her new full-time co-host, Ryan Seacrest. “Live with Kelly & Ryan” saw a surge in viewers after announcing last Monday that the show had selected Seacrest for the job.
“During its inaugural week (w/o 5/1/17), the newly rechristened ‘LIVE with Kelly and Ryan’ shot up over the prior week by 18% in Households (2.6/9 vs. 2.2/8) to score the show’s highest-rated week in 9 weeks, while soaring week to week by 22% among Women 25-54 (1.1/9 vs. 0.9/7) to match a 9-week high — since the show’s post-Oscars week in February (w/o 2/27/17),” the show’s distributor, Disney-ABC, announced today.
The announcement cites Nielsen Metered Market Live+Same Day figures for the week of May 1.
“’LIVE with Kelly and Ryan’ was the week’s No. 1 syndicated talk show in Women 25-54 (1.1/9), beating ‘Dr. Phil’ by 22% (0.9/6) and ‘Ellen’ by 10% (1.0/7),” the announcement adds. “In addition, ‘LIVE with Kelly and Ryan’ ran neck-and-neck with ‘Dr. Phil’ for No. 1 in Households, with just 1-tenth of a rating point between the two programs (2.6/9 vs. 2.7/8), while also topping ‘Ellen’ by 8% (2.4/7).”
Most shows get a bump when they add a familiar name. I am sure the Megyn Kelly show will see a big number it’s first week. Let’s check a couple months from now and see how they both are doing.
Yup..agree
Really wanted it to go to Jerry O’Connell. He is young and fun. Ryan is kind of boring. I am sure he was a “safe” choice. Maybe the decision wasn’t made by
Kelly. Maybe the network was worried about Megyn Kelly taking their audience and
went with a safe choice.