NBC's MEET THE PRESS Delivers Biggest Audience in Over Two Months
By: Caryn Robbins Jul. 03, 2014
The Sunday, June 29 edition of "Meet the Press with David Gregory" drew the NBC broadcast's biggest total viewer and A25-54 viewer audiences in over two months, according to Nielsen Media Research data.
The NBC program was the only public affairs broadcast to post week-to-week growth, up +9% in total viewers and +17% in rating A25-54 compared to the previous week. In the final week of 2Q'14, MTP was also the only broadcast to outperform its quarter average in total viewers (+9%), W/A18-49 (+50%/+25%), and rating W/A25-54 (+60%/+17%). SUNDAY, JUNE 29 HIGHLIGHTS: MTP averaged 2.549 million total viewers, marking the highest total viewer audience since 4/6/2014. MTP averaged a 0.7 A25-54 rating, tying This Week's for #1, and topping the Face The Nation hour by +3 tenths and Fox News Sunday by +5 tenths. MTP averaged 822,000 viewers A25-54, marking its highest delivery since 3/30/14 and topping the Face The Nation hour by +388,000 and Fox News Sunday by +532,000. MTP also beat the Face The Nation half hour average by +1 tenth and +163,000 viewers in the key demo. In total viewers, MTP led the Face The Nation hour by +28% (+560,000) and Fox News Sunday by +171% (+1,523,000).Videos