"Meet The Press" Draws Most Viewers Since April On Maddow's Debut Appearance

"Meet the Press" had its highest total viewer delivery since April this past Sunday, averaging 3,359,000 total viewers for David Gregory's most convincing victory in months.

ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" averaged 2,447,000 total viewers for a distant second place, while CBS' "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer averaged 2,470,000 total viewers and FOX's "FOX News Sunday" averaged 1,207,000 total viewers.

Sunday's "Meet the Press" featured Rachel Maddow's debut on the show; she appeared with former House Majority Leader Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX), Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) for an in-depth look at the health care debate.

"Meet the Press" hasn't seen an audience as large as Sunday's since April 19, when it featured Larry Summers and averaged 3,439,000 total viewers.

Perhaps more importantly, though, it hasn't had as decisive a victory over its chief competitors — ABC's "This Week," which recently topped it for the first time since 1999, and CBS' "Face the Nation" — since the spring.

Sunday's "Meet the Press" topped "This Week" by 37% (912,000 viewers), Gregory's strongest victory over Stephanopoulos since March 22; and it beat "Face the Nation" by 36% (889,000 viewers), Gregory's strongest victory over Schieffer since May 17.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/meet-the-press-draws-most_n_264612.html

Make her the moderator NOW!!!!!!

definitely!!

Gregory's numbers will tank again. she probably has a slight chance, but you never know.

so I felt better.

Watch the video; Armey kept looking across to Coburn with a "can you believe this pinko dyke and her attitude?".

Fucker!

And he'd share his stupid ass home-spun stories like anyone cared, while Maddow had done her homework and wouldn't back off.

Damn, we need to have her there more often or, better still, make her HOST!!

:applause:

Meet the Press: Hosted by Rachel Maddow. Yeah, I like how that sounds.

Or This Week With Rachel Maddow.

Or Face The Nation with Rachel Maddow.

She's a hit with viewers.

And adored in our family.

:hi:

First time I've watched MTP since well before Timmeh died.

ratings should show a big progressive dump on MTP.

"ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" averaged 2,447,000 total viewers for a distant second place, while CBS' "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer averaged 2,470,000 total viewers"

Doesnt that mean CBS was #2?

Should show a steady decline to normal low levels. :rofl:

Gregory Sucks...but so did Russert..

Would it be too much to suggest that perhaps Maddow should be hostess of MTP? And to hell with what Sally Quinn and the rest of the village would say.

Can't stand the right wing HO.

She would be very good at a lot other people's jobs too. I hope she shatters that good old boys club glass ceiling into toothpick sized splinters one day.

She is an unabashed, unapologetic liberal, and that's not how MTP works. MTP relies on a host that's seen as unbiased (or at least seen as biased by both the left and the right). There are many good places for Rachel, but I don't think MTP is one of them. She's much, much. much better suited to arguing the merits of a liberal point of view, and this is what I want her to continue doing. For her to have to pretend to be an objective moderator would be a waste.

However, you know what the high ratings for the show she was on mean to me? That America is a hell of a lot more liberal than our politicians have realized.

And unlike most of the idiot bobbleheads, she always has facts and research.

him instead of the camera and the audience.

Man, I hope she doesn't burn out. I read that she crams for her other show like a student preparing for finals -- from the small hours of the morning until she's on air.

by comparing the numbers to the ones right before election day but of course they didn't say this.