CBS's FACE THE NATION Delivers More Than 4 Million Viewers; Ties NBC in Key Demo

CBS News' FACE THE NATION was the #1 Sunday morning public affairs program with 4.13 million viewers on Dec. 18, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings. FACE THE NATION was also tied with NBC for first in adults 25-54, the demographic most important to those who advertise in news, delivering 0.8/04. FACE THE NATION posted double-digit year-to-year percentage growth in viewers (up +26%, from 3.27m) and adults 25-54 (up +33%, from 0.6/03). (Editor's Note: FACE THE NATION's second half-hour was broadcast contiguously across 58.7% of the CBS affiliates.)

FACE THE NATION is the #1 Sunday morning public affairs program in viewers television year-to-date, according to Nielsen most current ratings. Television year-to-date, FACE THE NATION is averaging 3.85 million viewers (up +10%, from 3.49m) and 0.8/04 in adults 25-54 (up +14%, from 0.7/03).

The Dec. 18 broadcast opened with an interview with President-elect Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, followed by a national security and foreign affairs panel with former national security advisor Tom Donilon; CBS News foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan; and The Washington Post's David Ignatius. Next Dickerson interviewed Sec. Henry Kissinger. Dickerson then spoke to Graeme Wood, author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamist State, followed by Ta-Nehisi Coates, national correspondent for The Atlantic and author of "My President Was Black" in the January/February 2017 issue. The political roundtable featured USA Today's Susan Page and Atlantic Media's Ron Brownstein.

Mary Hager is the executive producer of the Emmy award-winning FACE THE NATION, one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television.

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