Evening News Ratings: Week of December 16

By Merrill Knox 

“NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” had a 1.3 million viewer lead on No. 2 “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer,” while Sawyer kept a 870,000 viewer lead on No. 3. “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley” last week.

Compared to the same week last year, all three broadcasts are flat in total viewers and down in the A25-54 demographic: NBC is down -29%, ABC is down -37% and CBS is down -41%.

All three broadcasts were also down compared to last week.

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Numbers for the week of December 16, 2013:

NBC ABC CBS
• Total Viewers: 9,211,000 7,919,000 7,049,000
• A25-54: 2,249,000 1,905,000 1,641,000

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