Meet the Press with Kristen Welker was the #1 Sunday public affairs show among A25-54 demo viewers in November according to Nielsen.
Meet the Press averaged 440,000 key A25-54 demo viewers, leading ABC by +102,000 (+30%) and CBS by +23,000 (+5%). This marks Meet the Press’s tenth consecutive month ranking #1 among key A25-54 demo viewers and fifteenth consecutive month leading ABC. Meet the Press averaged 285,000 A18-49 viewers in November, tied with CBS for the season, which continues to rate for just 30 minutes of its hour-long broadcast.”
For the Sunday, November 30th show, Meet the Press increased its viewership across-the-board vs. prior week and increased its A25-54 and total viewership vs. prior year. Meet the Press reached its largest A25-54 audience in eleven weeks, its largest A18-49 audience in seven weeks, and its largest total viewer audience of the season. Compared to prior year, Meet the Press reversed its total viewer gap vs. ABC (+70,000 vs. -275,000 prior year).
Meet the Press was the #1 Sunday public affairs show among key A25-54 demo viewers for the 2024-25 broadcast season and continues to rank #1 in A25-54 demo viewers season-to-date. Meet the Press has never lost a month in the Washington, D.C. market among total viewers.
November’s broadcasts featured interviews with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani (D-N.Y.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and more. It also featured a “Meet the Moment” conversation with “Wicked: For Good” director Jon M. Chu