Meet the Press (Obama) blows out ABC This Week (Clinton) in Ratings: 8.5 rating to 1.3 rating

[TeamJordan23]

Per Drudge.

Obama/Clinton Sunday TV showdown ... In Indianapolis:

ABC THIS WEEK 1.3 rating/4 share
NBC MEET THE PRESS 8.5 rating/21 share

[featherman]

1. Now that is interesting

[nxylas]

2. Is that typical?

What are the normal ratings figures for the two respective shows?

[Texas Hill Country]

6. yes, it is typical. MTP is the #1 sunday morn talk show. #2 over all.

[jenmito]

9. Typical or not, many more people saw Obama yesterday at his best.

Not nearly as many people saw Hillary, which was probably lucky for her since she was NOT at her best.

[Adelante]

30. Not typical

According to post 28, Jen.

[speedoo]

8. My guess is that MTP regularly trounces ABC.

But by much less than those numbers. I think Steffanpoop lost a lot of credibilty, as did Gigson, in that ABC debate.

[Kajsa]

12. Yes they did!

I can no longer watch 'World News', since the debate.

Just the sight of those two makes me sick.

Instead, I watch' NBC Nightly News' with Brian Williams.

[Jensen]

17. Ditto and Kick!

:kick:

[Hope And Change]

3. Kick!

[Lucky 13]

4. Hell yeah.

People want to see the next President of the United States, not the also-ran.

[MercutioATC]

5. What are their normal ratings without the candidates?

I'll bet that MTP always has a higher share...


...just sayin'...these apples to oranges things are silly...

[Texas Hill Country]

7. about the same ratio

[writes3000]

10. I'm just happy for the greater exposure Obama got.

That's what's meaningful to me.

It would take more info to ascertain anything else from these numbers.

[MercutioATC]

11. Yes, in that way, it was a good thing for Obama.

I just don't want people (as they're prone to here) to turn this into an "Obama gets higher ratings than Clinton" thing.

[MadBadger]

16. MTP usually has the higher share, but nowhere near that high

That was a slaughter.

[otohara]

13. After ABC Debate - Deprogrammed

ABC World News & This Week - two worst debate moderators in the world!

[WA98296]

14. ABC has demonstrated they are not capable of discussing real issues, so I didn't bother watching

Totally enjoyed MTP though!

[panAmerican]

15. English, please! What exactly do those numbers mean?

Do you divide the rating by the share? Is there a total of 100 and each station gets a share of that?

[TBF]

19. It's just shares - not complicated.

Start with 100 (all the stations broadcasting at that time). 8% of the people watching at that hour watched "meet the press" while the lower number watched the other show. Many other channels were also on at that time - so that's what all the other people were watching.

[TBF]

20. It also shows an interesting statistic - only 10% of the people watching TV at that hour care about

politics. The other 90% were watching other things. That probably tells us more about the electorate at large than anything else. Don't get me wrong. I'm thrilled folks were watching Obama, but it does tell a wider tale about how fed up people are with politics as usual.

[TragedyandHope]

18. I shed no tears for ABC

:nopity:

[liberaldem4ever]

21. I know I will never watch This Week with George S.

ever again, and I have been a weekly viewer of the program for years. I usually watch Meet the Press (except when Carville and Matlin are on it) and I thought that Barack Obama did a great job on Sunday. He really looked and sounded presidential. I'm not surprised that MTP got a lot higher ratings than This Week. I'd love to know how much This Week's ratings have dropped since that ridiculous "debate".

[Coexist]

22. I remember reading that having Obama on boosts ratings really high

over McCain or Clinton.

[BlueIdaho]

23. If George's performance at the debate is his typical MO - its no surprise. nt.

[CanonRay]

24. No self-respecting Dem will ever watch Stephanopolos again.

He's carrion.

[indimuse]

25. DRUDGE???? I thought I was at DU??

as far as the ratings....that's a no brainer, look at all the negative issues surrounding BO!

[Barack_America]

26. That is actually more interesting to me than many of these polls.

Interesting that the MSM has been pushing that people are "tiring" of Obama.

Too bad McCain wasn't on 'Face the Nation' so we could see the lousy ratings he'd be sure to get in this matchup.

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

27. I tried to watch the town hall

But seeing Scooter act like an automated softball pitcher for Hillary got old *real* fast..

[RamboLiberal]

28. More Info from TVNewser Mediabistro on the ratings

TVNewser has received more ratings information on the Sunday morning shows. Based on the available household data for Indianapolis, Meet the Press delivered 91,000 homes (8.5 rating/21 share), up 94% versus the prior week. ABC's This Week delivered 14,000 homes (1.3 rating/4 share), down 26% versus the prior week.

The Russert-Obama hour on NBC affiliate WTHR beat the Stephanopoulos-Clinton hour on ABC affiliate WRTV by +550%.

This was the best homes delivery for Meet the Press on WTHR in at least 14 years (Feb. 1994), when Indianapolis became a metered market.

This all makes this line from the NYTimes Saturday story about the Sunday morning face-off very interesting.

Aides said Mrs. Clinton was attracted to his one-hour format and ABC-TV's high ratings in Indiana and North Carolina...

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

Hope some of this was slapback from the horrid slanted debate George & Charlie conducted in PA!

[scheming daemons]

29. For each American that saw Hill and Georgie suck up to one another, 8 Americans saw President Obama

That's big.