The “Today” show may have lost Matt Lauer, but it’s gaining viewers.
With regular 10 o’clock host Hoda Kotb in the now-disgraced anchor’s chair, “Today” won last week in total viewers, and in ratings for the key demographics of adults ages 25-54 and 18-49. 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 overlapping 25-54 demo.
Those each bested “Good Morning America, which had 4.376 million viewers total, 955,000 in the 18-49 group and 1.379