NBC’s Meet the Press was the top rated Sunday morning public affairs program again last week, but it was the show’s lowest Total Viewer delivery since August 19, 2007 (excluding June 8, 2008, when the French Open gave the show just 86% coverage). NBC, 2nd place “Face the Nation” and 3rd place “This Week” were all just 350,000 viewers apart.
Week-to-week, CBS with former VP Dick Cheney) and FOX grew in Total Viewers while no program was up in the A25-54 demo.
Versus the same week last year, Face the Nation was up 17% in Total Viewers, FOX News Sunday up 15%, This Week up 4% and Meet the Press was down 28%.
Total Viewers: NBC: 2,970,000 / CBS: 2,740,000 / ABC: 2,620,000 / FOX: 1,320,000
25-54 demo: NBC: 1,000,000 / ABC: 800,000 / CBS: 760,000 / FOX: 450,000