Seven Week Streak Marks First in Almost Six Years
Continues as #1 Sunday Show Season-to-Date for First Time since 2010-2011 Season
Tops Competition by Double-Digits in Key Demo
APRIL 25, 2017 – “Meet the Press with Chuck Todd” (MTP) was the #1 most-watched Sunday show across the board on April 23, 2017, winning its seventh consecutive week – the first time in almost six years (since July 31, 2011 – Sept. 18, 2011).
Sunday’s program featured exclusive interviews with Reince Priebus, chief of staff to President Donald Trump, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as well as an interview with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
MTP continues as the #1 Sunday show across the board season-to-date – the first time since the 2010-2011 season.
Delivering 3.369 million total viewers, MTP beat ABC’s “This Week by +12 percent (+364,000) and CBS’s “Face the Nation” by one percent (+34,000). Note: CBS continues to claim ratings for only the first 30 minutes of its hour-long broadcast.
With 984,000 A25-54 viewers, MTP topped ABC by +25 percent (+196,000) and CBS by +26 percent (+201,000). MTP has now won 42 out of the last 45 weeks in the key demo most valued by news advertisers.
In the influential Washington, D.C. market, MTP continues to outperform the competition in both total viewers and the key demo. The network program has now won every Sunday for more than two years (since March 22, 2015).
An additional 1.241 million total viewers and 300,000 key demo viewers watched the broadcast through rebroadcasts on MSNBC.
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NATIONAL AVERAGES – SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017
| Show Name | Net | Duration(minutes) | Total Viewers | A25-54 Demo Viewers |
| MEET THE PRESS | NBC | 49 | 3369 | 984 |
| FACE THE NATION HALF-HOUR | CBS | 30 | 3335 | 782 |
| FACE THE NATION HOUR | CBS | 60 | 2828 | 665 |
| THIS WEEK | ABC | 49 | 3005 | 788 |
| FOX NEWS SUNDAY | FOX | 60 | 1327 | 403 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. AVERAGES – SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017
| Households | Total Viewers | Adults 25-54 | |||||
| Stn | Program | Rtg | Shr | TV(000) | MTP ADV | TV(000) | MTP ADV |
| WRC | MEET THE PRESS | 3.43 | 10 | 90 | — | 30 | — |
| WUSA | FACE THE NATION HOUR | 1.26 | 4 | 44 | 105% | 12 | 150% |
| WJLA | THIS WEEK ABC | 0.99 | 3 | 30 | 200% | 13 | 131% |
| WTTG | FOX NEWS SUNDAY | 1.36 | 4 | 38 | 137% | 10 | 200% |
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