As the 2016 primary season kicks into high gear, the Sunday public affairs shows are seeing big year-over-year gains,
CBS’s Face the Nation with John Dickerson was the most-watched morning show among total viewers, while ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos was No. 1 in the A25-54 demo. This Week was up a whopping +50 in viewers and up +63 percent in the demo compared to the same Sunday last year. Fox News Sunday was also up big: +40 percent and +43 percent, respectively.
Cable replays of Fox News Sunday on FNC averaged a combined 3,168,000 viewers and 593,000 in the demo.
Face the Nation is based on the first half-hour only, as the full contiguous hour aired in just 57.83 percent of the country.
The numbers for February 21:
Network | Program | Total Viewers | A25-54 |
---|---|---|---|
CBS | Face the Nation | 3.908M | 1.032M |
ABC | This Week | 3.655M | 1.120M |
NBC | Meet the Press | 3.775M | 1.083M |
FOX | Fox News Sunday | 1.688M | 569,000 |
UNIV | Al Punto | 804,000 | 365,000 |