“Meet the Press” Delivers Highest Ratings Since Chuck Todd’s Debut and Biggest Demo Audience Since March

MTP Posts Significant Growth Week-to-Week, Quarter-to-Date, and Year-to-Year

NBC Broadcast is Dominant #1 in Washington, DC

DECEMBER 11, 2014 – “Meet the Press with Chuck Todd” continues to post significant ratings growth in all metrics and drive the political conversation week after week.

The December 7, 2014 edition marked MTP’s best total viewer audience since Chuck’s debut on 9/7/14 and highest A25-54 viewer audience since 3/2/14, according to Nielsen Media Research data.

Week over week, MTP was up +3% among total viewers and +10% up in A25-54 viewers.  Compared to its 4Q’14-to-date levels, MTP saw growth of +9% in total viewers and +27% in A25-54 viewers.  Versus the same broadcast last season, MTP delivered gains of +19% in total viewers and +18% among A25-54 viewers.

Nationally, MTP was the #2 Sunday morning public affairs program in the news demo A25-54. In Washington, DC, Meet the Press solidly topped the competition in total viewers and beat the competition combined in the demo.

MTP delivered an additional 1.297 million total viewers and 601,000 viewers A25-54 with rebroadcasts on the NBC network and MSNBC.

NATIONAL AVERAGES – 12/7/14

WASHINGTON, DC – 12/7/14

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