“Live with Kelly and Mark” continues to reign as the most-watched and highest-rated syndicated talk show, and the most-watched entertainment talk show on television in all key measures for the sixth consecutive season.
According to Nielsen’s Live+Same Day Big Data + Panel program ratings for the week of January 26-30, 2026, the talk show soared to a new season high, with 2.753 million viewers tuning into the chat fest hosted by Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos. This was the program’s most-watched week in more than a year (since the week of January 6-10, 2025).
The week featured the annual fan-favorite Viewer’s Choice Awards, with the show rising for the third consecutive week in both Households (1.86 rating) and Total Viewers (2.753 million), and saw week-to-week gains of +0.02 in Women 18-49 (0.29 rating vs. 0.27 rating) and +0.04 in Women 25-54 (0.48 rating v s. 0.44 rating), the key sales demographics used to sell ads for daytime television.
Compared to the same week last year, “Live with Kelly and Mark” was up among Total Viewers (+7% – 2.753 million vs. 2.561 million), Households (+11% – 1.86 rating vs. 1.68 rating) and Women 25-54 (+4% – 0.48 rating vs. 0.46 rating), while matching among Women 18-49 (0.29 rating vs. 0.29 rating).
The veteran talk show has now ranked as the No. 1 talker in national syndication for over three years, with 157 consecutive weeks across all key measures, ahead of its closest competition this week by +61% among Total Viewers (2.753 million vs. 1.711 million ), by +59% among Households (1.86 rating vs. 1.17 rating), +45% among Women 18-49 (0.29 rating vs. 0.20 rating) and by +71% among Women 25-54 (0.48 rating vs. 0.28 rating).
For the sixth consecutive season, “Live” ranks No. 1 in all key measures, ahead of its closest competition by +55% in Total Viewers (2.398 million vs. 1.544 million), by +51% in Households (1.54 rating vs. 1.02 rating), by +61% in Women 18-49 (0.29 rating vs. 0.18 rating) and by +63% in Women 25-54 (0.44 rating vs. 0.27 rating). Meanwhile, the talk show has led Daytime Talk among Women 25-54 (0.44 rating) for the seventh consecutive season.
“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.