{"id":850019,"date":"2026-09-16T17:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850019\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:44:15","slug":"the-view-ratings-season-30-best-premiere-week-in-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850019\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The View&#8217; Ratings: Season 30 Best Premiere Week in Six Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tViewers are still taking a little time to enjoy ABC\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-view\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-view\" data-tag=\"the-view\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The View<\/a>.\u201d The daytime talker, which has been in the crosshairs of the Trump Administration\u2019s FCC, averaged 2.518 million total viewers when it returned for Season 30 last week \u2014 up 8% from last year\u2019s audience (2.324 million) and posting the show\u2019s largest overall premiere week audience in six years (since the 2020-2021 TV season).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe View\u201d also attracted its best premiere week ratings in four years among women 18-49 and in three years with women 25-54. Also, week 1 of the show\u2019s landmark Season 30 averaged 208,000 women 25-54 (up 7% from 174,000 last year) and 173,000 with women 18-49 (up 15% from 151,000 last year) for the week of Sept. 7, 2026, based on Live + Same Day, Big Data + Panel Data from Nielsen Media Research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs for the show\u2019s premiere day ratings on Tuesday, Sept. 8, \u201cThe View\u201d averaged 2.607 million viewers (up from 2.602 million on Sept. 8 last year), which is also its most-watched season premiere episode in six years (since Sept. 8, 2020).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe new season opened with a recap of the show\u2019s hiatus (dubbed \u201cLet\u2019s Re-View\u201d day), followed by guests Ted Cruz and Lizzo on Wednesday, Sept. 9; Sherri Shepherd on Thursday, Sept. 10; and Maisie Williams on Friday, Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro are back as hosts on \u201cThe View.\u201d The series is executive produced by Brian Teta and is directed by Sarah de la O. There\u2019s also \u201cThe Weekend View,\u201d overseen by executive broadcast producer Robin Hommel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis week\u2019s guests include Colin Kaepernick (\u201cThe Perilous Fight\u201d), Neil deGrasse Tyson (\u201cLost in Space: 5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe\u201d), Ke Huy Quan (\u201cNever Say Die: A Memoir\u201d), Ethan Hawke (\u201cThe Weight\u201d), Clay Aiken (\u201cRewind\u201d) and Kenny Chesney (\u201cSilver Sands Marina\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viewers are still taking a little time to enjoy ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View.\u201d The daytime talker, which has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,2516,92,9611],"class_list":["post-850019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-the-view","tag-tv","tag-tv-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}