CBS News' FACE THE NATION posted double-digit year-to-year percentage growth in viewers and adults 25-54, delivering 3.54m viewers (up +14%, from 3.10m) and 0.8/04 (up +33%, from 0.6/03), according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Oct. 16. (Editor's Note: FACE THE NATION's second half-hour was broadcast contiguously across 58.7% of the CBS affiliates.)
Season-to-date,
FACE THE NATION is also up in viewers and posted double-digit percentage growth television year-to-date, according to Nielsen most current ratings.
FACE THE NATION delivered 0.8/04 in adults 25-54 (up +33%, from 0.6/03 compared to last year). (Editor's Note:
FACE THE NATION was pre-empted for an NFL game on Sunday, Oct. 2, and has only been rated three times this broadcast season.)
The Oct. 16 broadcast opened with interviews with both of the vice presidential candidates, Gov. Mike Pence (R-IN) and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA). The panel on the future of the Republican Party featured Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Tammy Bruce, radio talk show host and
Fox News political contributor; Alfonso Aguilar, president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles; and Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union. The political roundtable featured Jon Meacham, executive editor at Random House and author of Destiny and Power: The
AMERICAN ODYSSEY of George Herbert Walker Bush; Bob Woodward, associate editor at The Washington Post and author of The Last of the President's Men; David Ignatius, The Washington Post; and Maureen Dowd, columnist for The New York Times and author of The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics. Next
CBS News elections director Anthony Salvanto discussed new
CBS News battleground tracker polls in Utah, Nevada, and a cross sample of the 13 battleground states.
Mary Hager is the executive producer of the Emmy award-winning FACE THE NATION, one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television.
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