Sunday Show Ratings: October 4, 2009

While NBC’s “Meet the Press” retained its first place rank in Total Viewers last Sunday, CBS’ “Face the Nation” was #1 in the A25-54 demo. “CBS Sunday Morning,” which had a segment on Paul Shaffer featuring David Letterman, which was taped before his extortion explanation, was the lead-in to “Face.” “Sunday Morning” had its best A25-54 viewership since last April.

[By the way, our original story on the alleged extortion scheme included a CBSNews.com clip of Letterman explaining the plot. But as of today, that segment has been removed and the embed code now leads to a Katie Couric video. Click here to see...]

Guest list for the Sunday shows is here.

Network	Program	Total Viewers	A25-54
NBC	“Meet the Press”	3.14M	1.00M
CBS	“Face the Nation”	2.67M	1.02M
ABC	“This Week”	2.63M	810K
FOX	“Fox News Sunday”	1.19M	430K

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