MEET THE PRESS is Top Sunday Public Affairs Hour for 4/21

"Meet the Press" was the most-watched Sunday morning public affairs hour on April 21, 2013, according to Nielsen Media Research data. The NBC broadcast drew 3.569 million viewers, topping This Week by +632,000, The Face the Nation hour by +727,000, and FOX News Sunday by +2,364,000.

MTP delivered an additional 1,000,000 total viewers and 377,000 A25-54 viewers with rebroadcasts - 289,000 total viewers and 124,000 viewers A25-54 on the network, and 711,000 total viewers and 253,000 viewers A25-54 on MSNBC.

In Washington, DC, MTP averaged 114,000 total viewers (3.9/11 HH), +178% ahead of FOX News Sunday's 41,000 viewers (1.5/4), +200% more than The Face the Nation hour's 38,000 (1.3/4), and +280% ahead of This Week's 30,000 (1.0/4).

Highlights:

MTP posted the largest audience growth week-to-week, marking its best total viewer and W25-54 rating deliveries since December 30, 2012 and highest A25-54 rating since January 27, 2013.
MTP averaged 3.569 million total viewers, +22% (+632,000) more than This Week, +26% (+727,000) more than The Face The Nation hour, and +196% (+2,364,000) ahead of FOX News Sunday.
In homes, MTP delivered a 2.5 rating and 7 share, ahead of This Week 's 2.1/6, The Face the Nation hour's 2.0/5, and FOX News Sunday's 0.9/2.
In rating A25-54, MTP delivered a 0.9 rating, +1 tenth more than This Week, +3 tenths more than The Face The Nation hour, and +5 tenths more than FOX News Sunday.
MTP averaged 1,064,000 A25-54 viewers, +15% (+140,000) more than This Week, +40% (+303,000) more than The Face The Nation hour, and +138% (+617,000) more than FOX News Sunday.

Sunday's special edition of "Meet the Press with David Gregory" focused on the Boston marathon bombing featured an interview with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D); a discussion with House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI), Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL), NBC News Justice Correspondent Pete Williams, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Michael Leiter, and former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff; as well as a roundtable conversation with NBC's Tom Brokaw, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan, and The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg.

David Gregory is the moderator of "Meet the Press." Betsy Fischer Martin is the senior executive producer, Adam Verdugo is the senior producer, and Chris Donovan and Ilana Marcus Drimmer are producers.

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