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25-54 demographic (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 278 | MSNBC: 112 | CNN: 101 | HLN: 80

• Primetime: FNC: 384 | MSNBC: 179 | CNN: 121 | HLN: 106

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:	12a:
FNC	TheFive:	Baier:	Shep:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:
	296	291	252	463	387	301	389	319
MSNBC	Matthews:	Sharpton:	Matthews:	EdShow:	Maddow:	O’Donnell:	EdShow:	Maddow:
	97	95	115	116	206	215	107	112
CNN	Blitzer:	KingUSA:	Burnett:	Cooper:	Morgan:	Cooper:	Burnett:	Morgan:
	98	65	100	89	135	138	194	142
HLN	Express:	Express:	VelezMitchell:	Grace:	DrDrew:	Grace:	Showbiz:	DrDrew:
	53	34	91	156	67	96	105	108

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ABC’s Martha Raddatz is presented the Fred Friendly First Amendment Award in New York City

Martha Raddatz has been in worse rooms, in worse countries, on military bases and battlefields.

Today, ABC’s senior foreign affairs correspondent graced the gilded dining room at the 19th century Metropolitan Club on New York’s 5th Avenue and was presented with the Fred Friendly First Amendment Award by Quinnipiac University.

Ruth Friendly, the widow of the legendary CBS newsman for whom the award is named, described Raddatz as “fearless.” The impossibly humble Raddatz said, in fact, she was “filled with fear” as she took the stage.

“The courageous ones are the people I have covered during my career,” said Raddatz accepting the award before a crowd of more than 100 guests, including her ABC News colleagues Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, previous Friendly recipient Charlie Gibson, George Stephanopoulos, Bob Woodruff, Terry Moran, David Kerley and Jim Avila.

Raddatz talked about the courage of Staff Sgt. Sal Guinta, the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War. “Sal Guinta does not think he is courageous or a hero. He does not think he did anything that others wouldn’t do in the same situation.”

And the bravery of her own colleagues, “far too many of whom have lost their lives or been badly wounded doing so,” as Raddatz looked toward table four. “And I still can’t be in the same room with

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NBC’s “Meet the Press” won in Total Viewers on June 3, but “MTP” lost in the A25-54 demographic  — not to CBS’ “Face the Nation,” which has been competing for the top spot for the past several months, but to ABC’s “This Week.”

This is the first time in two years that “This Week” has won in the A25-54 demographic. ABC also trails CBS by its smallest Total Viewer gap of the season, 171,000 viewers.

Compared to the same week last year, “This Week” was up in Total Viewers and down in the A25-54 demographic. “Face the Nation” and “Fox News Sunday” were down in both categories. (NBC’s “Meet the Press” was preempted on 6/5/11 for coverage of the French Open.)

Cable rebroadcasts of “Fox News Sunday” averaged a combined 2,352,000 Total Viewers and 599,000 A25-54 viewers. A replay of “Meet the Press” on MSNBC added 620,000 viewers and 207,000 viewers, respectively.

“Face the Nation” is based on the first half-hour only, as the full contiguous hour airs in just 64% of the country.

The numbers for June 3:

Network	Program	Total Viewers	A25-54
NBC	“Meet the Press”	2.46M	687K
CBS	“Face the Nation”	2.37M	662K
ABC	“This Week”	2.20M	700K
FOX	“Fox News Sunday”	1.01M	405K
Univision	“Al Punto”	678K	306K

Last night on Fox News, Sean Hannity‘s “Great American Panel” took on Current TV’s Bill Press for remarks he made yesterday calling the National Anthem “an abomination” and saying he is “embarrassed every time I hear it.”

The entire panel, including Democratic pollster Doug Schoen, disagreed with Press’ statement, with Hannity concluding that Press just “wants attention.”

“I’ll buy him a plane ticket anywhere else he’d like go to in this world,” panelist Leann Tweeden said.

“I’ll take it a step further. We’ll get him a private jet,” Hannity responded. “I’ll pay for it. But he’s got to promise not to come back.”

Press’ remarks were also the topic of a segment with FNC contributor Michelle Malkin on “Fox & Friends” this morning. “We are so lucky to live in this amazing country and let’s say and sing these words with dignity,” Gretchen Carlson said.

The see-saw continues: NBC’s “Today” show is back on top for the holiday week of May 28, topping ABC’s “Good Morning America” by 169,000 Total Viewers and 311,000 A25-54 viewers.

“GMA” remains the only morning show to post year-over-year increases, albeit small ones (+1% in both Total Viewers and the demo). “Today” is down -8% in Total Viewers and -12% in the demographic, and “CBS This Morning” is down -5% and -6%, respectively.

Due to the Memorial Day holiday, Monday’s broadcasts of all three programs were excluded from the weekly averages.

The averages for the week of May 28:

• Total Viewers: NBC: 4.84M / ABC: 4.67M / CBS: 2.34M

• A25-54 viewers: NBC: 2.11M / ABC: 1.80M / CBS: 891K

Jon Stewart had some harsh words for Fox News and MSNBC over their coverage of the Wisconsin recall election on “The Daily Show” last night. “As has now become customary, the news networks functioned less last night as repositories of news and analysis, and more of extensions of the winning or losing campaigns,” Stewart said. “Fox News went with Gloat Fest 2012 … and if Fox was high, MSNBC must be MSNB-Sad.”

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The LATimes writes up Pres. Obama’s LGBT fundraiser in Los Angeles last night attended by about 600 supporters including Ellen DeGeneres, Cher and her son Chaz Bono. Another boldface name in the crowd: CBS Corp. CEO and chairman Les Moonves and his wife, “The Talk” co-host Julie Chen, who, in the past, anchored CBS News’s “The Early Show.”

Before the event began, a long line of partygoers waited on the sidewalk outside the hotel to check in. CBS chief Les Moonves and his wife, Julie Chen, waited patiently for their wristbands. Obama, Moonves said, “has shown great leadership” on the issue of gay marriage.

Though he heads a news division, Moonves said, “ultimately journalism has changed … partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.”

He hastened to add that despite his presence, “I run a news division. I’ve given no money to any candidate.”

Wonder how this is going over in the CBS Newsroom. We’ve got a call in to find out.

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Mediabistro’s Diane Clehane lunched with CurrentTV host and former Gov. Eliot Spitzer at Michael’s yesterday. Spitzer opened up about his past with CNN and his present with Current.

About a year ago, CNN boss Ken Jautz cancelled In The Arena in a shakeup of the network’s primetime lineup. “I’m very happy with the show we did and the ratings we got, which were good to compared to what they’re getting now,” Eliot told me. Not surprisingly, he says he prefers and is better suited for Current TV’s politically charged environment. “Current has an ideology. There’s no pretense; we’re open about it. CNN tries very hard to position itself as an non-ideological news network, but there’s no objectivity in network news. It would be better for all of us if we just accepted that.” Therein lies the major issue with his former employer’s rating woes, says Eliot: ”CNN has a serious question of what it is and they’ve got to answer that.”

The New York Times‘ David Itzkoff caught up with Aaron Sorkin ahead of the June 24 premiere of “The Newsroom” on HBO. As we’ve been documenting here over the last several months, Sorkin has drawn from real cable news channels — specifically MSNBC — to craft his drama. Itzkoff writes Sorkin, “was embedded at MSNBC’s incarnation of ‘Countdown With Keith Olbermann‘ during the BP oil spill in 2010…”

Mr. Olbermann, a longtime friend of Mr. Sorkin’s, said there were other parallels between his MSNBC tenure and events in the “Newsroom” pilot, as when [anchor Will] McAvoy [played by Jeff Daniels, right] returns from hiatus to discover that his backup host has been given his own show. (Mr. Olbermann declined to provide further details, but his onetime backup host Lawrence O’Donnell was given his own MSNBC show in September 2010.) Mr. Sorkin also hired Margaret Judson, an assistant of Mr. Olbermann’s, to act on “The Newsroom.”

Itzkoff also reveals Thomas Matthews, son of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews plays a newsroom staffer on “The Newsroom.”

Much more in Itzkoff’s piece, set to run in Sunday’s paper. Go here to read through.