Video taking off 20x its usual first day

A Kansas Senate bid joins Zelenskyy's interview on This Week

ABC News's full broadcast draws an unusually large early audience for a lineup spanning Ukraine and control of Congress.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 374,392 views a day, 20 times a normal first day on this channel (18,416).

This Week with George Stephanopoulos Full Broadcast - Sunday, October 11, 2026

Adam Hamilton is pursuing a political rarity: becoming Kansas's first Democratic senator in almost a century. His campaign shares the October 11 edition of This Week with an exclusive interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, following Donald Trump's call for him to be replaced.

The complete broadcast reached about 229,000 views in its first ten hours, already far beyond the audience a regular ABC News upload usually draws over a full first day. That is a strong start for the whole program, not just an excerpt from its most prominent interview.

Zelenskyy's segment addresses Trump's diesel deal with Russia. A separate ABC News report on that deal and Trump's suggestion of Ukrainian elections also drew an unusually large early audience, putting the subject in focus across both formats.

The domestic campaign gets substantial room in the full episode. Jon Karl and Rachel Scott report on midterm races before Hamilton's interview, while House Majority Whip Tom Emmer discusses Republicans' efforts to retain control of Congress. The program closes with its Powerhouse Roundtable examining the week's politics.

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The facts

Channel: ABC News
Subscribers: 19,900,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 53,601,042
Channel views, pace per day: 12,548,496 (on a normal day: 6,881,442)
Video published: October 11, 2026
Video views so far: 228,988 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 374,392

The numbers

The full broadcast has already surpassed ABC News's usual first-day audience for regular videos. The related diesel-deal report also made a fast start.

the video's first day

usual first day here

18,416

this video

374,392

subscribers

19,900,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

19,119,708,212

views per day

12,548,496