Via NBCU press release:
Tom Brokaw’s Interview with Sen. John McCain Outperforms ABC by 1.4 Million Viewers, CBS by 2 Million Viewers and Fox by 4.5 Million Viewers (New York) – October 30, 2008 – According to Nielsen Media Research data, “Meet the Press” was the most-watched Sunday morning public affairs program, winning the week ending Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. The Brokaw-moderated program was No. 1, averaging 4.749 million total viewers, +42 percent more (+1,393,000) than second place ABC’s “This Week” 3.356 million, a +71 percent advantage (+1,968,000) over third place CBS’ “Face the Nation” 2.781 million and a +295 percent lead (+4,527,000) over FOX News Sunday’s 1.559 million. “Meet the Press” has now placed first in total viewers for 370 of the past 372 weeks (when everyone is at full coverage). On cable, the rebroadcasts of “Meet the Press” on MSNBC delivered an additional 1,077,000 total viewers outperforming CNN’s “Late Edition” average of 1,063000 total viewers.
In Washington, D.C., “Meet the Press” beat the competition with 143,000 viewers (5.3/14 HH), a +131 percent advantage over ABC’s 620,000 viewers (1.8/5), a +104 percent lead over CBS’s 70,000 viewers (2.3/6), and +123% more than FOX’s 64,000 viewers (2.1/6).
In homes nationally, the NBC program was No. 1, posting a 3.5 rating and 10 share. ABC came in second with a 2.4 rating and 7 share, CBS in third with a 1.9 rating and 5 share, and FOX placed last with a 1.1 rating and 3 share. “Meet the Press” has now placed first in households for 107 straight weeks and 467 of the past 468 weeks (when everyone is at full coverage).
Among adults 25-54, the NBC Sunday morning show came in first with a 1.4 rating, ABC came in second with 0.9, CBS in third with 0.8 and FOX came in last with a 0.5. In rating A25-54, “Meet the Press” topped ABC by +56% (+5 tenths), CBS by +78% (+6 tenths) and FOX by +180% (+9 tenths).
“Meet the Press” is up double digits across-the-board compared to the same week last season and season-to-date. In addition, the program is up in every category compared to its 4Q’08 season-to-date average.
On its digital platforms, “Meet the Press’” generated more than 692,000 online video streams from October 26 through October 29, 2008. Traffic to www.mtp.msnbc.com was at more than 2 million page views for that same time period. The “Meet the Press” video podcast (available at www.mtp.msnbc.com) remains the top ranked network Sunday Morning program podcast on iTunes.
Last week’s guest was Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and the roundtable featured political analyst Charlie Cook, NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell and NBC’s political director Chuck Todd.
Tom Brokaw is the interim moderator of “Meet the Press.” Betsy Fischer is the executive producer and Michelle Jaconi and Rebecca Samuels are the producers.
Joseph C Dunmore Sr.
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Hello My Name is Joe Dunmore of Monee IL.,
Save America #1 First Program:
Can your TV station send or forward this to the President elect Barack Obama, Our Congress & Senate please a idea that might work for us all.
If the President-elect Barack Obama and Senate and the Congress give every american 25,000.00 to 22,000.00 for a two year term out of 500—400,000,000,000 billion dollars for people that make under 125,000 a year that would jump start the economic situation. Those americans would buy new home, invest back in american in stock market, buy new cars to help save US car sale’s of the big three, they would bank there money in our banks, give them a large tax credit for buying from the big 3 cars american built cars only, some americans would paid off thier bills that would help big business, small business would be helped by americans with money spend it back into the system. New small business would be started also & save some homes to home owners in america those that would lose their home can maybe save them. Young people would buy there first home. Give american pride back in being a real american citizen. Save our housing market, home prices would go back up. Local taxes can be paid to keep cities & states in full working order. A true Robin Hood bail out package for america under pressure.
This type of program would work for the people with money also it would simulate their pockets in sales and profit for americans to buy again. Somebody need to bring this to the front of things to our country law makers.
The answer is not to give the 50 states the money let the american people put us back in the spot light. This way it won’t give it to the greed of banks & big CEO’s. Let’s trust our americans for a change.
This would be a win win sitution for us all the rich & the poor alike. That would make the US dollar be strong again in the market place.
This just my idea bringing us back to a strong base again as US Americans.
Joe Dunmore of Monee IL 60449