‘Live with Kelly and Mark’ Scores Robust Year-Over-Year Gains With Festive Holiday Week

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• “Live with Kelly and Mark” celebrated the July 4th holiday week, growing year over year for the second week in a row among both Total Viewers (+5% – 2.272 million vs. 2.161 million) and Households (+6% – 1.48 rating vs. 1.39 rating).
• The annual July 4th holiday show (7/3/26), which this year focused on the country’s historic 250th anniversary, posted year-over-year gains in Total Viewers (+5% – 2.255 million vs. 2.148 million), Households (+8% – 1.47 rating vs. 1.36 rating), Women 18-49 (+4% – 0.27 rating vs. 0.26 rating) and Women 25-54 (+18% – 0.40 rating vs. 0.34 rating).
• “Live” has now ranked as the No. 1 talk show in syndication for more than three years (179 consecutive weeks) across all key measures, ahead of its closest competition this week by +41% among Total Viewers (2.272 million vs. 1.613 million), by +48% in Households (1.48 rating vs. 1.00 rating), by +24% with Women 18-49 (0.26 rating vs. 0.21 rating) and by +36% with Women 25-54 (0.38 rating vs. 0.28 rating).
• Season to date (9/1/25-7/5/26), for the sixth consecutive season, “Live” ranks as syndication’s No. 1 talk show in all key measures, leading its closest competition by +51% in Total Viewers (2.388 million vs. 1.578 million), +48% in Households (1.55 rating vs. 1.05 rating), by +61% in Women 18-49 (0.29 rating vs. 0.18 rating) and by +54% in Women 25-54 (0.43 rating vs. 0.28 rating).
• In addition, for the seventh season in a row, “Live” leads Daytime Talk among Women 25-54 (0.43 rating).
• “Live with Kelly and Mark” is the most-watched entertainment talk show on television in all key measures, including Total Viewers, Households and Key Women demographics for the sixth consecutive season.

About “Live with Kelly and Mark”
“Live with Kelly and Mark” is distributed in national syndication by Disney Entertainment. The show is produced by WABC-TV in New York and executive produced by Michael Gelman and Kelly Ripa. Visit “Live” on the web (LivewithKellyandMark.com), Facebook, Instagram and TikTok (@LiveKellyandMark).

Source: Nielsen, National Live+Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings. Week of 6/29/26, Year-Ago Week 6/30/25. 2025-2026 Season (9/1/25-7/5/26. 24/25 and 23/24 Seasons are based on Big Data Plus Panel, while prior seasons are Panel only.

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