Drives Big Numbers on TikTok and YouTube
Ranks #1 in Both A25-54 and A18-49 Demos Season-to-Date
November 26, 2025 — Meet the Press with Kristen Welker was the #1 Sunday public affairs show among both A25-54 and A18-49 demo viewers this past Sunday, November 23, according to Nielsen.
Meet the Press averaged 398,000 key A25-54 demo viewers this past Sunday, leading ABC by +33,000 (+9%) and CBS by +46,000 (+13%). 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 286,000 A18-49 demo viewers, leading ABC +23,000 (+9%) and CBS by +30,000 (+12%). In total viewers, Meet the Press averaged 2.442 million for this past Sunday.
In addition to Nielsen-tracked viewers, on NBC News’ TikTok account, clips of Sunday’s exclusive interviews with New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani (D-N.Y.) and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent scored more than 7.2 million views. Those two interviews, in addition to an exclusive with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), resulted in over 1.2 million views on NBC News’ YouTube account.
Meet the Press was the #1 Sunday public affairs show among key A25-54 demo viewers for the 2024-25 broadcast season. Meet the Press has never lost a month in the Washington, D.C. market among total viewers.
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NATIONAL AVERAGES – NOVEMBER 23, 2025
| Show Name | Network | Duration (minutes) | Total Viewers | A25-54 Viewers |
| MEET THE PRESS | NBC | 49 | 2,442 | 398 |
| FACE THE NATION HALF-HOUR | CBS | 30 | 3,069 | 352 |
| FACE THE NATION HOUR | CBS | 60 | 2,715 | 302 |
| THIS WEEK – RETITLED | ABC | 51 | 2,559 | 365 |
| FOX NEWS SUNDAY | FOX | 60 | 964 | 225 |
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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