Few people have their lives scrambled at 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning, but for Jon Schlossberg, such stuff can be quite routine.
\n\nNot too long ago, Schlossberg, still only a few months into his tenure as the new executive producer of the ABC News Sunday public-affairs program “This Week,” found out in the wee hours of a Sunday morning that Senator Lindsay Graham has passed away. Suddenly, the lineup of the show he oversees needed to be redone – and quickly.
\n\n“It’s our job on ‘This Week” to follow the news. That can lead to some very exciting last-minute decisions,” confesses Schlossberg, who took the reins of the program. “We enter the weekend with a plan and wake up early Sunday and see where we are.”
\n\nAs “This Week” finishes the 2025-2026 season, the program kept its status as the nation’s most-watched Sunday public-affairs show for the fifth consecutive cycle, according to data from Nielsen. “This Week” commanded an average of 2.726 million viewers for the cycle, compared with 2.634 million for CBS’ “Face the Nation” and 2.588 million for NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The NBC program leads among viewers between 25 and 54, the age demographic most coveted…
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