Ninth Consecutive Month Winning Key A25-54 Demo
Ranks #1 in Both A25-54 and A18-49 Demos Season-to-Date
October 29, 2025 — Meet the Press with Kristen Welker was the #1 Sunday public affairs show among both A25-54 and A18-49 demo viewers in October according to Nielsen.
Meet the Press averaged 410,000 key A25-54 demo viewers, leading ABC by +55,000 (+15%) and CBS by +49,000 (+13%). This marks Meet the Press’s ninth consecutive month ranking #1 among key A25-54 demo viewers and fourteenth consecutive month leading ABC. Compared to prior year, Meet the Press more than doubled its A25-54 lead vs. CBS (+49,000 vs. +21,000 prior year). Season-to-date, Meet the Press is posting its largest A25-54 demo lead vs. CBS in three years, which continues to rate for just 30 minutes of its hour-long broadcast.
In addition, Meet the Press averaged 279,000 A18-49 demo viewers, leading ABC by +38,000 (+16%) and CBS by +11,000 (+4%). This marks Meet the Press’s third consecutive month winning among A18-49 demo viewers and sixth consecutive month beating ABC. Compared to September, Meet the Press improved its A18-49 lead vs. CBS (+11,000 vs. +6,000 prior month).
Meet the Press was the #1 Sunday public affairs show among key A25-54 demo viewers for the 2024-25 broadcast season and ranks #1 in both A25-54 and A18-49 demo viewers season-to-date.
Meet the Press averaged 2.384 million total viewers in October, outperforming ABC for the third consecutive month. Season-to-date, Meet the Press is outperforming ABC for the first time in five years (since 2020-21). Meet the Press has never lost a month in the Washington, D.C. market among total viewers.
October’s broadcasts featured interviews with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and more. It also featured a “Meet the Moment” conversation with Marcus Samuelsson.
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NATIONAL AVERAGES – OCTOBER 2025
| Show Name | Network | Duration (minutes) | Total Viewers | A25-54 Viewers |
| MEET THE PRESS | NBC | 196 | 2,384 | 410 |
| FACE THE NATION HALF-HOUR | CBS | 120 | 2,804 | 361 |
| THIS WEEK | ABC | 206 | 2,377 | 355 |
| FOX NEWS SUNDAY | FOX | 240 | 992 | 211 |
MEET THE PRESS WITH KRISTEN WELKER
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, David P. Gelles is executive producer of Meet the Press, and Melissa Frankel is executive producer of Meet the Press NOW.
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