CBS’ “Face the Nation” was the most-watched Sunday public affairs show June 2, topping NBC’s “Meet the Press” by +470,000 Total Viewers and +70,000 A25-54 viewers.

Compared to the same week last year, only “Face the Nation” (+19% in Total Viewers / +13% in A24-54) and Univision’s “Al Punto” (+14% / +13%) are up in both ratings measurements. “Fox News Sunday” is up +5% in Total Viewers and down -20% in the A25-54 demographic, and “Meet the Press” (-5% / -1%) and ABC’s “This Week” (-11% / -24%) were down across the board.

Cable replays of “Fox News Sunday” averaged a combined 2,389,000 Total Viewers and 482,000 viewers in the demo. “Meet the Press” delivered an additional  939,000 Total Viewers and 506,000 A25-54 viewers with rebroadcasts.

“Face the Nation” is based on the first half-hour only, as the full contiguous hour aired in just 63% of the country.

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During his appearance on “The Tonight Show” last week, NBC “Today” anchor Matt Lauer told Jay Leno:

“I made a vow years ago, Bryant Gumbel told me, ‘Don’t sing and don’t dance on the show.’”

Friday, he broke that vow.

Lauer, along with “Meet the Press” moderator David Gregory in Washington and Al Roker in Kentucky, got down to Psy’s YouTube hit “Gangnam Style.” Things will never be the same.

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Savannah Guthrie will interview President Obama this week on “Today.”

David Gregory announced the news at the close of today’s “Meet the Press,” saying the “wide-ranging, exclusive” interview will take place at the White House. The interview will air Tuesday and Wednesday on “Today.”

The interview is Guthrie’s second sit-down with the President. She previously interviewed him in September during NBC’s “Education Nation” summit.

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Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC president Phil Griffin and the UAE’s Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef Al Otaiba threw a 50th birthday bash for Joe Scarborough last night in Washington, DC.

According to Politico, Scarborough thought they were coming to D.C. for a speech, instead, on the rooftop of 101 Constitution Ave., Scarborough was treated to a “this is your life” with friends and family. “We have your life covered here completely, from Boston to Los Angeles to Florida to New York to Washington. Everybody is here,” said Brzezinski.

“You can sit back and relax and just hang with your family because, actually, we are going to talk tonight — and you’re not going to say a word.”

Among the guests: NBC/MSNBC’s Willie Geist, David Gregory, Luke Russert, Mike Barnicle, Andrea Mitchell, Kelly O’Donnell and Lawrence O’Donnell. “Morning Joe” EP Alex Korson and former EP Chris Licht and Licht’s boss’s boss at CBS, Jeff Fager. Also, Walter Isaacson, Dan Senor, Nicolle Wallace, Bob Woodward and more.

(h/t Playbook)

Shortly after 2:30pmET, President Obama and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium for a joint press conference from Jerusalem. Fox News, CNN and MSNBC took the press conference live. NBC News was the only broadcast network to offer a special report, anchored by Brian Williams in New York.

Obama and Netanyahu took three questions: one from the Israeli press, one from Matt Spetalnick of Reuters, and one from NBC’s Chuck Todd, who asked about the peace process. Todd asked several follow up questions, which led to an exchange with the President and Prime Minister.

“Do you guys do this in this Israeli press? You say you get one question, and then you add like five?” Obama asked jokingly. “Did you see how the young lady from Channel One — she had one question, and she was very well-behaved, Chuck.”

“I thought I had four questions,” Todd responded. “Passover starts in a couple days. I get four questions.”

“This is not a kosher question, but don’t hog it,” Netanyahu said.

Obama went on to his answer, calling Todd “incorrigible.”

David Gregory joked to Williams afterward, “That Chuck Todd included dietary law and Passover in his question is, I think, news and significant. Something they’ll be talking about in Jersusalem.”

The NBC News Group, including NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC, held an upfront presentation today at the New York Public library in midtown Manhattan. The Celeste Bartos Forum in the Library was lit up in shades of purple and blue, as media buyers and advertisers mingled with NBC News executives and talent.

Newly-minted MSNBC 8 PM host Chris Hayes was there, as was Matt Lauer, the co-anchor of “Today” who has been at the center of a number of news stories of late. He seemed to take the stories in stride, joking with Savannah Guthrie onstage:

“I would like to tackle what might be a teeny white elephant in the room,” Lauer said to laughter from the crowd. “We all love covering the news,  we hate being the news, and so I would like to say on that subject–from the bottom of my heart–that I promise to spend all of my time and energy over the next several months trying to keep Savannah out of the headlines. ”

We want to go back to the most-watched morning program and the least talked about morning program,” he added.

Lauer sat next to NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke during the lunch, and “Today” was the final NBC News property pitched during the presentation, emphasizing how important the show is to the network.

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Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush appeared on “Meet the Press” (and “This Week,” and “Al Punto,” and “Face the Nation,” and “State of the Union,” and “Fox News Sunday”) today, and of course one of the topics was his possible plans for 2016.

Bush, perhaps perturbed after doing what seems like every other TV show that day, laughed when David Gregory asked about a potential Rubio-Bush faceoff in three years. Because in political TV, the campaign is always king.

“Man you guys are crack addicts, you are obsessed with all this politics,” Bush said.

“I have been called many things…” Gregory replied.

“OK, heroin addict,” Bush said. “Put aside the politics for a moment, we have big challenges and Marco Rubio, to his credit is working on those.”

He added, “I dont want to begin the prcoes to think about it until it is the proper time to do so.”

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NBC “Meet the Press” moderator David Gregory is profiled by the AP.

Frazier Moore uses last year’s unplanned comment from Vice President Joe Biden on same-sex marriage to describe what he argues is the heart of the show, the “Beltway Booyah moment” that keeps people talking, and the program relevant.

That kind of Beltway Booyah moment helps account for why Gregory loves hosting “Meet the Press,” NBC’s venerable Sunday morning public-affairs program he took over four years ago (and where he recently accepted what the network calls its “long-term commitment” for his services).

“This is an agenda-setting program,” says Gregory. “What happens on ‘Meet the Press’ can definitely make news and frame the debate.”

Gregory and his executive producer Betsy Fischer Martin both signed new deals with NBC in the last few weeks, keeping them on the program long-term. While “Meet the Press” has fallen behind “Face the Nation” on CBS, it remains the number one Sunday public affairs show for the full-hour.

Gregory also talks about following the footsteps of Tim Russert:
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NBC News has promoted Betsy Fischer Martin to senior executive producer of “Meet the Press,” and managing editor of NBC News political programming, TVNewser has learned.

In a memo to NBC staff, NBC News senior VP Antoine Sanfuentes praised Fischer’s leadership on the long-running Sunday show, and outlined her additional responsibilities:

Betsy’s experience and editorial judgment will help guide NBC News as it continues to be the leader in political reporting. She will also work with Chuck Todd and the NBC News political team, taking on additional responsibilities guiding the news division’s political news and information programming.

Sanfuentes’ full memo to staff is after the jump. Fischer Martin’s promotion comes just a few weeks after NBC News extended “Meet the Press” moderator David Gregory‘s contract with the network.

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NBC News “Meet the Press” moderator David Gregory has signed a new deal with network, according to the Associated Press. Gregory, who has been with NBC News since 1995, succeeded the late Tim Russert as moderator of “Meet the press” in 2008.

NBC News shared no details, but described the new deal as “a long-term commitment.”

“What a great vote of confidence from NBC,” a pleased-looking Gregory said Thursday. He said his first four years in the moderator’s chair have passed quickly.

An NBC source says that “Meet the Press’ EP Betsy Fischer Martin is likely to extend her deal with the network too in the coming weeks.