Beats Competition in Key Demo for 15th Straight Broadcast
Delivers Largest Total Viewer Advantages Over Competition in Six Years Season-to-Date
MARCH 20, 2018 – “Meet the Press with Chuck Todd” (MTP), the #1 most-watched Sunday show across the board season-to-date, is winning in the influential Washington market for its third straight year – a streak that hasn’t happened in nearly seven years.
The show won the key demo nationally this past Sunday, March 18 and is delivering its largest advantage over ABC and CBS in total viewers in six years season-to-date.
Sunday’s win also marks the broadcast’s unrivaled Washington market winning streak, where MTP regularly beats its competition by triple-digits across the board.
Sunday’s broadcast featured exclusive interviews with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) who said former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe “should’ve been allowed to finish through the weekend,” as well as Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Rep. Michael Conaway (R-Texas).
Dominating the demo most valued by news advertisers, MTP won its fifteenth straight broadcast with 928,000 demo viewers tuning in: +17 percent (+135,000) more than ABC’s “This Week” and nine percent (+78,000) more than CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
3.494 million total viewers tuned into MTP, topping ABC in total viewers for the 49th straight broadcast: +14 percent (+431,000) more than ABC. Just one percent separated MTP from CBS, which only rates for the first 30 minutes of its hour-long broadcast.
An additional 1.109 million total viewers and 373,000 A25-54 viewers watched the Sunday program through rebroadcasts on NBC and MSNBC.
Tune into MSNBC’s “MTP Daily” weekdays at 5 p.m. for more, and follow the show on Facebook and on Twitter for the latest.
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NATIONAL AVERAGES – SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2018
| Show Name | Net | Duration (minutes) | Total Viewers | A25-54 Viewers |
| MEET THE PRESS | NBC | 51 | 3,494 | 928 |
| FACE THE NATION HALF-HOUR | CBS | 30 | 3,545 | 850 |
| FACE THE NATION HOUR | CBS | 60 | 2,828 | 665 |
| THIS WEEK | ABC | 45 | 3,063 | 793 |
| FOX NEWS SUNDAY | FOX | 60 | 1,347 | 409 |
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For more information contact:
Joya Manasseh
NBC News
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e: joya.manasseh@nbcuni.com
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NBC NEWS’ “MEET THE PRESS WITH CHUCK TODD”
“Meet the Press with Chuck Todd” is where newsmakers come to make news — setting the political agenda and spotlighting the impact Washington decision-making has on Americans across the country. It is the #1 most-watched Sunday public affairs show across the board for the 2016-2017 season, reaching more than three million viewers every Sunday and millions more through social, digital and on-demand platforms. “Meet the Press” brings its authority and influencer interviews to MSNBC with “MTP Daily” weekdays at 5 p.m. ET and to the “1947: The Meet the Press Podcast”. It’s the longest-running show in television history, having celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2017 with the launch of its first-ever film festival in collaboration with the American Film Institute this November. Chuck Todd is the political director of NBC News and the moderator of “Meet the Press“; John Reiss is the executive producer.
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