‘Meet the Press With Kristen Welker’ Is #1 in Key Demo This Past Sunday

Also Ranks #1 in the Key A25-54 Demo Season-to-Date

June 3, 2025 — Meet the Press with Kristen Welker was the #1 Sunday public affairs show in the key demo this past Sunday, June 1, according to Nielsen. This marks the 10th key A25-54 demo win for Meet the Press in the last 16 weeks and follows the show’s #1 rank for the month of May in the key demo.

Meet the Press averaged 368,000 key A25-54 demo viewers, leading ABC by +19,000 (+5%) and CBS by +75,000 (+26%). Meet the Press was up versus the prior year.

The Welker-led program ranks #1 for the current broadcast season among key A25-54 demo viewers. Meet the Press is the program up the most versus the same point last season.

Meet the Press also averaged 2.037 million total viewers this past Sunday. Meet the Press has never lost a month in the Washington, D.C. market among total viewers. 

Meet the Press continues to lead in digital viewership for Sunday public affairs programs, with viewers consuming hundreds of thousands of hours of content.

Sunday’s broadcast featured exclusive interviews with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Sen. Raphael Warnock.

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NATIONAL AVERAGES – JUNE 1, 2025

Show Name Net Duration (minutes)Total Viewers A25-54 Viewers 
MEET THE PRESS NBC512,037368
FACE THE NATION HALF-HOURCBS302,307293
FACE THE NATION HOURCBS602,038265
THIS WEEKABC482,132350
FOX NEWS SUNDAYFOX60755192

Meet the Press with Kristen Welker is the premiere destination for original political reporting and interviews with the leaders that shape each week’s headlines. Moderated by Kristen Welker, the veteran NBC News chief White House correspondent and the first journalist of color to moderate a Sunday public affairs program, Meet the Press has set the political agenda and highlighted the everyday impact of Washington decision-making on viewers all over the country for more than 75 years. It reaches millions of viewers every Sunday and millions more through social, digital and on-demand platforms. Meet the Press also brings its signature analysis and newsmaker interviews to streaming audiences with Meet the Press NOW at 4 p.m. on weekdays on NBC News NOW. Kristen Welker is the 13th moderator of Meet the Press, Carrie Budoff Brown is NBC News senior vice president for politics, and David Gelles is executive producer. Melissa Frankel is executive producer of Meet the Press NOW.

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