ABC World News Tonight with David Muir is the top-rated nationwide night newscast but once more.

For the week beginning on Memorial Day, ABC News’ night juggernaut averaged 7.42 million complete viewers and greater than 1.14 million A25-54 viewers. That’s in line with stay plus identical day information from Nielsen for the week starting May 29, 2023.

WNT marked its tenth consecutive week because the most-watched regularly-scheduled present throughout broadcast and cable, and has now defeated its night information competitors from NBC and CBS 235 of the previous 236 weeks in common complete viewers—and 164 of the final 166 weeks amongst Adults 25-54.

World News Tonight gained +0.2% in complete viewers (+14,000) however shed -0.2% in A25-54 viewers (-2,000) compared to the week before (week of May 22). Despite the week-to-week drop off in A25-54 viewing, WNT turned in its largest margin of victory over the competitors within the demo in almost 10 months.

ABC’s night newscast once more gained +0.2% in complete viewers (+17,000) however shed -15% in A25-54 viewers from the year-ago week (which also started on Memorial Day). as Americans below 55 more and more depart linear TV information.

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt averaged greater than 6.0 million complete viewers (No. 3 amongst all regularly-scheduled broadcast and cable TV programming) with 838,000 Adults 25-54 for the week of May 29. Nightly News is +2% in complete viewers, however -3% in A25-54 viewers from the week prior. Additionally, the NBC newscast, in comparison with the identical week in 2022, shed -1% in complete viewers and -14% amongst Adults 25-54.

According to Adobe Analytics and Partner Portals; YouTube Analytics Portal, full weekday episodes of NBC Nightly News on YouTube reached a mean of  873,000 views and 667,000 complete viewers final week.

The CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell averaged 4.49 million complete viewers and 669,000 Adults 25-54 for the week of May 29, +3% and +2%, respectively, from what the newscast drew in these measurements the prior week. The CBS Evening News is +5% in complete viewers however -5% in A25-54 viewers from the year-ago week.

This previous week’s Nielsen scores averages are skewed. For occasion, on Memorial Day Monday, all three night newscasts have been coded as specials. On Thursday, World News Tonight was retitled to “WNT-ABC” on account of Game 1 of the 2023 NBA Finals. On Friday, World News Tonight was retitled to “WNT-ABC, CBS Evening News was retitled to “CBS Evening-Nws” and NBC Nightly News was retitled to “NBC Nitely News” on account of stay protection of President Biden’s deal with in regards to the nationwide debt ceiling. These telecasts are excluded from the weekly and season averages. ABC’s weekly night information common relies on two days (Tuesday and Wednesday), whereas CBS’ and NBC’s weekly night information averages are based mostly on three days (Tuesday-Thursday).

Nielsen live-plus-same-day averages for the week of May 29, 2023:

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 Live + SD Current Week (w/o 5/29/23), Previous Week (w/o 5/22/23) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 5/30/22). Most Current Data Stream: Season 2022-2023 (9/19/22-6/4/23) and Season 2021-2022 (9/20/21-6/5/2023). Nielsen scores for ABC, NBC and CBS embody extra airings in choose markets. Beginning 8/31/20, nationwide scores additionally embody Out of Home (OOH) viewing. Averages based mostly on common telecasts.