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Each of the English language Sunday public affairs shows posted year-over-year total audience losses on March 19.
For the third consecutive week, NBC’s Meet the Press with Chuck Todd remained No. 1 across the board. MTP also remained No. 1 in the D.C. market, and posted an additional 1.754 million total viewers through reruns on MSNBC. On the downside, MTP was -5 percent in total audience and -2 percent in the ever-important A25-54 demo relative to March 20, 2016.
CBS Face the Nation with John Dickerson earned a No. 2 finish in the key categories, but was -11 percent in total viewers and -4 percent in the news demo relative to the same Sunday last year.
ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos had a mediocre week relative to the same Sunday last year, -20 percent in total viewers and -6 percent in the news demo. On the plus side, the program is +4 percent in total viewers versus last season, and is drawing its largest total audience since the 1998-99 season.
Fox News Sunday hosted by Chris Wallace posted a -5 percent decline in total viewers, but a +1 percent gain among demo viewers versus last year. The cable replays delivered 2.84 million total viewers and 735,000 demo viewers at 2 p.m., 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. ET. All together, the episode garnered 4.34 million total viewers and 1.18 million adults 25-54 on March 19.
Al Punto hosted by Jorge Ramos, on the other hand, posted strong audience figures relative to the same week last year. Univision’s public affairs program delivered a +29 percent increase in total viewers, a +21 percent increase in adults 25-54, +49 percent in adults 18-49, and posted a solid +76 percent improvement in millennial viewers from the same Sunday in 2016.
The numbers for March 19:
Network | Program | Total Viewers | A25-54 |
---|---|---|---|
NBC | Meet the Press | 3.621M | 1.113M |
CBS | Face the Nation | 3.433M | 942,000 |
ABC | This Week | 2.969M | 875,000 |
FOX | Fox News Sunday | 1.505M | 449,000 |
UNIV | Al Punto | 840,000 | 401,000 |