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ABC’s Sunday Beltway show This Week won the second quarter of 2015 in the news demo with 875,000 viewers  – its first demo win during a second quarter in 21 years. CBS’ Face The Nation, meanwhile, won the quarter in overall audience with 3.212 million viewers, while This Week clocked 2.683 million. And what of “sleepy…

NBC’s Meet The Press delivered its best May sweep since 2012 in overall viewers and the news demo. It delivered 2.61 million overall viewers and 826,000 in the key age bracket. Still, it finished the sweep behind ABC’s This Week (2.63 million viewers, 881,000 in news demo) as well as CBS’ pack leader Face The Nation…

George Stephanopoulos apologized on air for a second time, for the $75K in donations he’s made to the Clinton Foundation since 2011. The latest statement came 14 minutes into this morning’s ABC News’s Sunday Beltway show This Week. It was the same apology he’d read on air Friday, on Good Morning America, about the…

ABC’s This Week beat NBC’s Meet the Press in the news demo for the February sweep – the first time that’s happened in 22 years. The ABC Sunday Beltway show turned in its strongest sweep performance in the news demo in six years, and its smallest news demo gap against frontrunner, CBS’s Face the Nation, during a…

CBS’s Face the Nation was the most watched Sunday Beltway show the Sunday after the midterm election with 3.374 million viewers — 902,000 of them news demo viewers. ABC’s This Week finished first with news-demo viewers — 937,000 — and finished second among overall audience, with 3.060 million tuned in. And NBC’s Meet t…

NBC’s Meet The Press fell back to No. 3 in the Sunday Beltway show race the week of October 26, after moving up to No. 2 for a week, drawing 2,351,000 total viewers, and 508,000 news demo viewers. CBS’s Face The Nation finished first on both fronts (308,000 viewers, 818,000 news demo viewers), while ABC’s This Week…

Don’t do too much navel lint gazing about metered-market numbers out today for the Sunday Beltway shows. Those preliminary ratings had NBC’s Meet The Press with a 1.8/5, CBS’s Face The Nation at 2.2/6 and ABC’s This Week at 2.0/5. A week earlier, MTP clocked a preliminary 2.1/6 metered market household rating to Face t…

ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos won the first Sunday of the 2014-2015 season in both total viewers (3.391 million) and in the news demo (1.003 million). The Premiere Week win was This Week’s first in 12 years in overall audience and first in six years in the demo. The ABC program improved on previous…

CBS's Face The Nation squeaked past ABC's This Week by 1,000 news demo viewers, to take first place for the TV season among Sunday Beltway shows. Bob Schieffer’s CBS show won the TV season more handily among overall audience. In the news demo, Face wound up the 2013-14 TV season with an average 867,000 demo viewers…

After enjoying the Obama Bump and the looky-loos curious to see the new anchor, Chuck Todd's Meet The Press tumbled 13% in viewers and 19% in the news demo in its second week, falling from first place back to third. In total viewers, the show dropped from previous week's winning 2.991 million, to 2.589 million, behind…

Stephen Colbert was hysterical this morning on This Week. George Stephanopolous interviewed the comic who appeared in character to discuss his exploratory committee to become a GOP presidential candidate in South Carolina’s January 21 primary. Watch for the clip from the Super PAC ad saying what presidential candidate…

That’s what the struggling Internet search and content company hopes to accomplish as it unveils today what it calls “the first stage of an ambitious yearlong program” to build on its partnership with ABC News and cover 2012 campaign issues — and especially the presidential horse race. The effort includes a…