ABC World News Tonight with David Muir stays No. 1 within the night information rankings race, however the newscast’s grip on the highest spot is changing into tenuous.

Per dwell plus similar day knowledge from Nielsen, World News Tonight averaged 8.18 million whole viewers and 1.125 million A25-54 viewers for the Thanksgiving holiday-shortened week of Nov. 20. The present’s 8.18 million viewer common for the week is +3% from the previous week (a non-holiday week, after all); whereas its 1.125 million A25-54 common can also be +3% from the week prior. When in contrast with Thanksgiving week 2022, nevertheless, ABC’s night newscast is -6% in whole viewers and -27% in A25-54 viewers, as this system continues its troubling development of dropping viewers beneath 55 on an annual foundation.

Holiday weeks are at all times unusual instances for the community newscasts, particularly when contemplating Nielsen rankings. ABC News solely rated World News Tonight’s Tuesday, Nov. 21 broadcast final week, excluding 4 different days. The Monday, Nov. 20 broadcast of World News Tonight was retitled resulting from Monday Night Football, the newscast was preempted on Friday, Nov. 25 for primetime faculty soccer, and the Wednesday and Thursday broadcasts have been coded as specials as a result of Thanksgiving vacation.

Still, World News Tonight has averaged extra whole viewers than NBC and CBS 260 of the final 261 weeks, and extra adults 25-54 189 of the final 191 weeks.

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt continues to achieve floor on its ABC rival. The newscast averaged 1.09 million A25-54 viewers this previous week, which is +7% from the week prior, and solely -32,000 fewer than World News Tonight. NBC Nightly News averaged almost 7.65 million whole viewers for the week, a stable +12% achieve from the week prior and the newscast’s largest common weekly viewers since January.

The Friday, Nov. 24 version of Nightly News averaged 8.89 million whole viewers, the biggest viewers of any regularly-scheduled non-sports present this previous week. It is value noting that ABC and CBS preempted their respective night newscasts for school soccer.

Nightly News’ week of Nov. 20 rankings averages are based mostly on three days — Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Wednesday and Thursday excluded as a result of Thanksgiving vacation.

Despite the persevering with week-to-week positive factors, Nightly News stays down from its 2022 efficiency. This previous week, the newscast shed -8% in whole viewers and -20% in A25-54 viewers relative to Thanksgiving week 2022.

Additionally, in keeping with knowledge from Adobe Analytics and Partner Portals—and the YouTube Analytics Portal, full weekday episodes of NBC Nightly News earned a mean of  572,000 whole views and 500,000 viewers this previous week.

Changing channels, The CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell averaged almost 5 million whole viewers and 686,000 Adults 25-54 for the week of Nov. 20. That’s +3% and +3%, respectively, from the week earlier than. However, CBS Evening News noticed a -5% decline in whole viewers and a -16% decline in A25-54 viewers from the year-ago week.

CBS News solely counted the Monday and Tuesday broadcasts of The CBS Evening News. Wednesday and Thursday have been coded as specials as a result of Thanksgiving vacation, and Evening News was preempted on Friday for primetime faculty soccer.

Nielsen live-plus-same-day averages for the week of Nov. 20, 2023:

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 Live + SD Current Week (w/o 11/20/23), Previous Week (w/o 11/13/23) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 11/14/22). Most Current Data Stream: 2022-2023 Season (9/25 – 11/26/22) and 2022-2023 Season (9/19 – 11/20/22). 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 based mostly on common telecasts.