Saturday, May 23, 2009

MEET THE PRESS, meet huge ratings


MEET THE PRESS continues its domination of the sunday morning public affairs forum. MEET THE PRESS had 3.2 million viewers tune in. I like those numbers because David Gregory is doing a great job. He has had tough shoes to fill that of Tim Russert and interm host Tom Brokaw. Gregory continues to use his tough questioning approach which makes it more fasinating to watch each week. Gregory's first show on MSNBC "Race for the White House" greatly improved the 6pm timeslot of the former MSNBC host/contributor Tucker Carlson's "Tucker, Live". On MSNBC he followed the dame ratings trend of increasing each week. His first show averaged over 500,000 viewers. As the elections approached the ratings went higher however the network at 6pm still remained in 3rd place behind CNN's the situation room and way behind Fox news' special report. Despite the moderate ratings gain I believe Gregory's debut as a host really prepared him for the full time job of MEET THE PRESS. I will continue to watch the show because Gregory always has interesting guest and a variety of people to fill in his roundtable. I don't quiet like ABC's "This Week" because the roundtable portion of the show features the same people with the same point of view. CBS' "Face the Nation" is ABC's competition because on occasion Face the nation sometimes beats This Week. As for Fox's "Fox News Sunday", WTF happened to that show?! The ratings are horrible, it used to beat ABC before now its the least watched sunday morning public affairs forum. Perhaps people find a distained distrust among the Fox news family. Besides only conservatives watch Fox, liberals watch ABC and moderates like me watch MEET THE PRESS. AGAIN thats my opinion. Heres the full ratings break down from last week:

show audience size
NBC's MEET THE PRESS 3.3 million
ABC's THIS WEEK 2.8 million
CBS's FACE THE NATION 2.1 million
Fox's Fox News Sunday 1.3 million

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