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And Holt, who\n     was honored with the prestigious 2019 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence\n     in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University,\n     got rare access inside Iran for a special edition of <em>Nightly News<\/em>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Meet\nthe Press with Chuck Todd<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Meet\n     the Press<\/em> is #1 across the board for the\n     2<sup>nd<\/sup> straight year, outpacing all other Sunday morning public\n     affairs programs in A25-54, A18-49 and total viewers.<\/li><li>The\n     show also wins in total viewers for the second year in a row, topping the\n     competition for all four quarters this year.<\/li><li>The\n     program beats ABC\u2019s <em>This\n     Week<\/em> and CBS\u2019 <em>Face\n     the Nation<\/em> in A25-54 by double digits for the fourth straight\n     year and leads them in A18-49 for the fifth consecutive year.<\/li><li>In\n     the influential D.C. market,<em>\n     Meet the Press<\/em> has won every single Sunday for over four years\n     (since 3\/22\/2015).<\/li><li>This year marks five years with Chuck\n     Todd at the&nbsp; helm of&nbsp;<em>Meet\n     the Press<\/em>&nbsp;and saw\n     the launch of the NBC News\u2019 year-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/county-to-county\">\u201cCounty to County\u201d project<\/a> highlighting five pivotal counties in\n     the upcoming 2020 election.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NBC\nNews Special Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>NBC\n     News, MSNBC and Telemundo hosted the first Democratic debate of the 2020\n     cycle and made history with 18.1 million viewers and 5.3 million in A25-54\n     on the second night, making it the most-watched Democratic debate ever.<\/li><li>NBC\n     News\u2019 coverage of the 2019 State of the Union and post-speech analysis won\n     across the board across the broadcast networks for the second consecutive\n     year.<\/li><li>Ranked\n     #1 among all television networks in the key A25-54 and younger A18-49\n     demos for coverage of both the Mueller testimony and for the first five\n     days of the impeachment hearings.<\/li><li>The\n     Specials Unit produced over 90 NBC News Special Reports this year with\n     over 90 hours, in addition to the first Democratic debate of the 2020\n     election. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>_______________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Year-End\nNielsen Ratings Charts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td>\n  &nbsp;\n  <\/td><td>\n  A25-54<br \/>\n  (000)\n  <\/td><td>\n  A18-49<br \/>\n  (000)\n  <\/td><td>\n  P2+<br \/>\n  (000)\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  <strong>TODAY<\/strong>\n  <\/td><td>\n  <strong>1,246<\/strong>\n  <\/td><td>\n  <strong>893<\/strong>\n  <\/td><td>\n  <strong>3,827<\/strong>\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  GOOD MORNING AMERICA\n  <\/td><td>\n  1,136\n  <\/td><td>\n  790\n  <\/td><td>\n  3,908\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  CBS THIS MORNING\n  <\/td><td>\n  771\n  <\/td><td>\n  536\n  <\/td><td>\n  2,972\n  <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td>\n  <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\n  <\/td><td>\n  A25-54<br \/>\n  (000)\n  <\/td><td>\n  A18-49<br \/>\n  (000)\n  <\/td><td>\n  P2+<br \/>\n  (000)\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  <strong>NBC NIGHTLY NEWS<\/strong>\n  <\/td><td>\n  <strong>1,687<\/strong>\n  <\/td><td>\n  <strong>1,151<\/strong>\n  <\/td><td>\n  <strong>7,772<\/strong>\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT\n  <\/td><td>\n  1,680\n  <\/td><td>\n  1,142\n  <\/td><td>\n  8,547\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  CBS EVENING NEWS\n  <\/td><td>\n  1,106\n  <\/td><td>\n  794\n  <\/td><td>\n  5,666\n  <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td>\n  <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\n  <\/td><td>\n  A25-54<br \/>\n  (000)\n  <\/td><td>\n  A18-49<br \/>\n  (000)\n  <\/td><td>\n  P2+<br \/>\n  (000)\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  <strong>MEET THE PRESS<\/strong>\n  <\/td><td>\n  <strong>779<\/strong>\n  <\/td><td>\n  <strong>553<\/strong>\n  <\/td><td>\n  <strong>3,257<\/strong>\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  THIS WEEK\n  <\/td><td>\n  656\n  <\/td><td>\n  445\n  <\/td><td>\n  2,783\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  FACE THE NATION\n  <\/td><td>\n  647\n  <\/td><td>\n  457\n  <\/td><td>\n  3,026\n  <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n  FOX NEWS SUNDAY\n  <\/td><td>\n  363\n  <\/td><td>\n  267\n  <\/td><td>\n  1,298\n  <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Nielsen Media Research, LS,\n12\/31\/2018-12\/15\/2019 with two weeks remaining in the broadcast year; NBC News\nprograms vs. respective competitive sets; regularly-titled telecasts only,\nexcluding specials and breakouts. Evening newscasts include 3:30P West Coast\nairings for ABC and overnight airings in selected markets for all three\nnetworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NBC\nNEWS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More Americans\nwatch NBC News than any news organization in the world. Its leading and\naward-winning television news broadcasts include&nbsp;<em>TODAY<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>NBC\nNightly News with Lester Holt<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Meet the Press with Chuck Todd<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Dateline\nNBC, Third Hour of TODAY<\/em>, <em>TODAY\nwith Hoda and Jenna <\/em>and<em>\nSunday TODAY with Willie Geist,<\/em>&nbsp;as well as primetime\nspecials and breaking news reports. The rapidly-growing NBC News Digital Group,\nincluding its streaming news service NBC News NOW, along with the SiriusXM\nTODAY Show Radio channel, provides continuous content to consumers wherever\nthey are, whenever they want it. NBC News also operates Peacock Productions, an\naward-winning in-house production company, and the NBC NewsChannel affiliate\nnews service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NBC News is\npart of the NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which is owned\nby Comcast Corporation. For more information about NBCUniversal, please\nvisit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcuniversal.com\/\">www.NBCUniversal.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NBC News\ncontact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali Zelenko<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>212-664-6677<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:ali.zelenko@nbcuni.com\">ali.zelenko@nbcuni.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC NEWS \u201cFOUR\u201d THE WIN AGAIN IN 2019: TODAY, NBC NIGHTLY NEWS AND MEET THE PRESS ARE #1 FOR FOUR STRAIGHT YEARS Four Years in a Row Following Four Seasons in a Row December 19, 2019 \u2013 NBC News\u2019 TODAY, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Meet the Press with Chuck Todd close out [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2019\/12\/19\/nbc-news-four-the-win-again-in-2019-today-nbc-nightly-news-and-meet-the-press-are-1-for-four-straight-years\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from NBC NEWS \u201cFOUR\u201d THE WIN AGAIN IN 2019: TODAY, NBC NIGHTLY NEWS AND MEET THE PRESS ARE #1 FOR FOUR STRAIGHT YEARS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nbc-news","tag-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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