Sunday Show Ratings: June 3

By Merrill Knox 

NBC’s “Meet the Press” won in Total Viewers on June 3, but “MTP” lost in the A25-54 demographic  — not to CBS’ “Face the Nation,” which has been competing for the top spot for the past several months, but to ABC’s “This Week.”

This is the first time in two years that “This Week” has won in the A25-54 demographic. ABC also trails CBS by its smallest Total Viewer gap of the season, 171,000 viewers.

Compared to the same week last year, “This Week” was up in Total Viewers and down in the A25-54 demographic. “Face the Nation” and “Fox News Sunday” were down in both categories. (NBC’s “Meet the Press” was preempted on 6/5/11 for coverage of the French Open.)

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Cable rebroadcasts of “Fox News Sunday” averaged a combined 2,352,000 Total Viewers and 599,000 A25-54 viewers. A replay of “Meet the Press” on MSNBC added 620,000 viewers and 207,000 viewers, respectively.

“Face the Nation” is based on the first half-hour only, as the full contiguous hour airs in just 64% of the country.

The numbers for June 3:

Network Program Total Viewers A25-54
NBC
“Meet the Press” 2.46M 687K
CBS
“Face the Nation” 2.37M 662K
ABC “This Week” 2.20M 700K
FOX “Fox News Sunday” 1.01M 405K
Univision “Al Punto” 678K 306K

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