'Today' show wins week outright in TV ratings with Hoda Kotb in for Matt Lauer

The “Today” show may have lost Matt Lauer, but it’s currently gaining viewers.

With regular 10 o’clock host Hoda Kotb in the now-disgraced (and unemployed) anchor’s chair, the NBC News morning show won last week in total viewers, and adults 25-54/18-49 ratings. Combined with the prior week’s win, this marks the first two-week, across-the-board victories for “Today” in about a year.

Last week, “Today” scored an average of 4.578 million total viewers, with 1.208 million of them aged 18-49 and 1.635 million in the slightly older (but mostly overlapping) demo.

Those each bested “Good Morning America’s” tallies of 4.376 million (total), 955,000 (18-49), and 1.379 million (25-54), respectively. That final group is considered the main demo for ad sales across news programming.

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Bringing up the rear, “CBS This Morning” — which recently lost anchor Charlie Rose to a sexual harassment scandal of his own — averaged 3.572 million total viewers, 654,000 in 18-49, and 916,000 from 25-54 grouping.

Lauer was let go from “Today” on Tuesday, November 28 — the audience learned about the ousting the following morning. That news alone handed the NBC News series a 43 percent lift in Nielsen ratings from the previous day.

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