NBC News is #1 Across The Board for Final 2012 Presidential Debate

ANALYSIS: OVER 9.32 MIL TOTAL VIEWERS AND 4.25 MIL A25-54

NBC’s top-rated post-debate analysis -- led by Brian Williams with Tom Brokaw, David Gregory, Savannah Guthrie, Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Kristen Welker, Peter Alexander, and Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass -- delivered 9.327 million total viewers and 4.252 million viewers aged 25-54.

PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE (9:00-10:34pm ET)
* NBC News’ coverage of the third and final Presidential Debate averaged 12.391 million total viewers, +6% (+661,000) more than ABC’s 11.730 million, and +47% (+3,954,000) more than CBS’s 8.437 million.
* In A18-49, NBC averaged a 4.4 rating, beating ABC by +38% (+1.2 rating points) and CBS by +76% (+1.9 points).
* In A25-54, NBC averaged a 4.9 rating, +32% (+1.2 rating points) ahead of ABC and +63% (+1.9 points) ahead of CBS.

POST-DEBATE ANALYSIS (10:34-11:00pm ET)
* NBC’s post-analysis coverage averaged 9.327 million total viewers, +16% (+1,275,000) more than ABC’s 8.052 million and +51% (+3,160,000) ahead of CBS’ 6.167 million.
* In A18-49, NBC averaged a 3.2 rating, +52% (+1.1 rating points) more than ABC and +78% (+1.4 points) more than CBS.
* In A25-54, NBC delivered a 3.6 rating, +38% (+1 rating point) ahead of ABC and +57% (+1.3 points) ahead of CBS.
* Versus the rated analysis during the third 2008 Presidential debate (Wed 10/15/08), NBC was up +3% (+235,000) in total viewers, +3% (+1 tenth) in rating A18-49 and flat in rating A25-54.

ONLINE
* NBCPolitics.com saw over 2.5 million page views and over 709,000 video streams (including over 251,800 live streams).

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