ABC World News Tonight with David Muir shed viewers from the earlier week, however maintained its No. 1 rating within the night information rankings race.

Per dwell plus identical day information from Nielsen, World News Tonight averaged 7.91 million whole viewers and 1.09 million A25-54 viewers for the Tuesday by Friday time interval of the week of Nov. 13. World News Tonight’s 7.91 million viewer common is -5% from the previous week (which was rated on just three days); a steeper week-to-week loss than what its rivals noticed, however nonetheless the most important common viewers of any U.S. broadcast and cable TV present. Additionally, World News Tonight’s 1.09 million A25-54 common is -6% from the week prior. When compared with the year-ago week, ABC’s night newscast is -11% in whole viewers and a whopping -28% in A25-54 viewers, as this system continues its troubling pattern of shedding viewers beneath 55 on an annual foundation.

A optimistic for World News Tonight (along with the primary place end): On Tuesday, Nov, 14, the newscast turned in its most-watched telecast (8.52 million) since March 28, 2023.

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, alternatively, continues to realize floor on its ABC rival. That stated, it did lose viewers this week from comparable weeks. NBC’s night information providing drew a median of greater than 1.02 million A25-54 viewers this previous week, which is -5% from what it averaged the week earlier, and -17% from the year-ago week. In common whole viewers, NBC Nightly News was the third-most-watched present throughout all of broadcast and cable TV (excluding sports activities) for the week, averaging 6.81 million viewers. That represents solely a -1% drop-off from the earlier week, and a -6% from the year-ago week.

According to information from Adobe Analytics and Partner Portals—and the YouTube Analytics Portal, full weekday episodes of NBC Nightly News earned a median of  811,000 whole views and 630,000 viewers this previous week.

Additionally, Nightly News beat World News Tonight on at some point of the week for the sixth consecutive week (Nightly News averaged +59,000 extra A25-54 viewers than WNT on Monday, Nov. 13). The final time we noticed this pattern was December 2019.

Changing channels, The CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell averaged greater than 4.8 million whole however simply 669,000 Adults 25-54 for the week of Nov. 13. That’s -3% and -1%, respectively, from the week earlier than. However, CBS Evening News noticed a -10% decline in whole viewers and a -20% decline in A25-54 viewers from the year-ago week.

Nielsen live-plus-same-day averages for the week of Nov. 13, 2023:

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 Live + SD Current Week (w/o 11/13/23), Previous Week (w/o 11/6/23) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 11/7/22). Most Current Data Stream: 2022-2023 Season (9/25 – 11/19/22) and 2022-2023 Season (9/19 – 11/13/22). Nielsen rankings for ABC, NBC and CBS embrace extra airings in choose markets. Beginning 8/31/20, nationwide rankings additionally embrace Out of Home (OOH) viewing. Averages primarily based on common telecasts.