#1 in Key Demo This Past Sunday, Topping CBS and ABC
Marks 15th Straight Month as #1 in Demo Most Valued by News Advertisers
Only Sunday Show to Grow Across the Board Year over Year
MAY 2, 2017 – “Meet the Press with Chuck Todd” (MTP) is the #1 most-watched Sunday show season-to-date, delivering an average of 3.569 million total viewers and 1.062 million A25-54 demo viewers for the month of April.
This past month, MTP topped ABC’s “This Week” by +21 percent (+608,000) in total viewers. In the demo most valued by news advertisers, MTP beat ABC by +38 percent (+292,000) and CBS’ “Face the Nation” by +24 percent (+208,000) – continuing to be the sole Sunday show to deliver more than one million demo viewers. April was the 15thstraight month (since February 2016) that MTP was #1 in the key demo.
In April, MTP was also the only Sunday show to grow across the board year over year, growing the most in total viewers (two percent) and growing four percent in the key demo. No other Sunday show grew among A25-54 viewers.
This past Sunday, April 30, MTP held its #1 rank with the key demo, delivering 1.013 million viewers, eight percent (+76,000) more than CBS and +36 percent (+266,000) more than ABC.
3.422 million total viewers tuned into MTP: +16 percent (+479,000) more than ABC. Only 16 percent (-658,000) separated MTP from CBS, which continues to rate for only the first 30 minutes of its hour-long broadcast.
Sunday’s program featured exclusive interviews with Vice President Mike Pence and Senators Susan Collins (R) and Angus King (I), both from Maine.
MTP continued its more than two-year streak winning the influential Washington, D.C. market, outperforming the competition across the board.
An additional 1.150 total viewers and 259,000 key demo viewers watched the program through rebroadcasts on MSNBC.
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NATIONAL AVERAGES – SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2017
| Show Name | Net | Duration (minutes) | Total Viewers | A25-54 Viewers |
| MEET THE PRESS | NBC | 49 | 3422 | 1013 |
| FACE THE NATION HALF-HOUR | CBS | 30 | 4080 | 937 |
| FACE THE NATION HOUR | CBS | 60 | 3386 | 769 |
| THIS WEEK | ABC | 38 | 2943 | 747 |
| FOX NEWS SUNDAY | FOX | 60 | 1449 | 451 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. AVERAGES – SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2017
| Households | Total Viewers | Adults 25-54 | |||||
| Stn | Program | Rtg | Shr | TV(000) | MTP ADV | TV(000) | MTP ADV |
| WRC | MEET THE PRESS | 3.24 | 10 | 79 | — | 20 | — |
| WUSA | FACE THE NATION HOUR | 1.33 | 4 | 39 | 103% | 18 | 11% |
| WJLA | THIS WEEK ABC | 0.95 | 3 | 27 | 193% | 10 | 100% |
| WTTG | FOX NEWS SUNDAY | 1.59 | 5 | 42 | 88% | 19 | 5% |
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