CBS's FACE THE NATION Up +29% Year-to-Year in Adults 25-54

CBS News' FACE THE NATION posted double-digit, year-to-year percentage growth in adults 25-54, delivering 0.9/04 (up +29%, from 0.7/04), according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Oct. 9. FACE THE NATION delivered 3.82 million viewers on Oct. 9. (Editor's Note: FACE THE NATION's second half-hour was broadcast contiguously across 58.7% of the CBS affiliates, and Orlando, Norfolk, Raleigh-Durham and Jacksonville were excluded by Nielsen due to conditions caused by severe weather.)

FACE THE NATION also posted double-digit percentage growth television year-to-date, according to Nielsen most current ratings. Television year-to-date, FACE THE NATION delivered 0.8/04 in adults 25-54 (up +14%, from 0.7/03 compared to last year). (Editor's Note: FACE THE NATION was pre-empted for an NFL game on Sunday, Oct. 2, and has only been rated twice this broadcast season.)

The Oct. 9 was broadcast live from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., home of the second presidential debate. Dickerson spoke with Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Robby Mook, Hillary for America campaign manager. The show then aired a CBS News focus group on the 2016 presidential election with Missouri voters. Next CBS News elections director Anthony Salvanto discussed new CBS News battleground tracker polls in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The CBS News political panel featured Bob Schieffer, CBS News political contributor; Norah O'Donnell, co-host of CBS THIS MORNING; Major Garrett, CBS News' chief White House correspondent; and Nancy Cordes, CBS News' congressional correspondent. The political roundtable featured Wall Street Journal and CBS News contributor Peggy Noonan; Slate and CBS News political analyst Jamelle Bouie; USA Today's Susan Page; and Bloomberg's John Heilemann.

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.