Morning Show Ratings: Week of October 5

With its best week since May, NBC’s “Today” show solidly held first place among the morning shows last week and gained nearly 300K Total Viewers week-to-week. ABC’s “Good Morning America” and CBS’ “Early Show” maintained roughly the same total audience from the previous week.

The averages from last week:

Total Viewers: NBC: 5.5M / ABC: 4.0M / CBS: 2.7M

A25-54 rating: NBC: 2.0 / ABC: 1.4 / CBS: 0.9

Bonus: “Early Show” Weather anchor Dave Price, shaved off his “No Way Home” beard a half-hour at a time today.

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