The three evening newscasts drew a combined average of 25,600,000 Total Viewers last week — up 1% from a year ago (25,330,000). “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” led the way with 10M Total Viewers, with “World News with Diane Sawyer” 1.09M viewers behind — but closing the gap with “Nightly” to its closest level in 6 weeks. “World News” was up year-over-year in Total Viewers and had its best A25-54 demo number since the week of Feb. 08, 2010. The “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” was also up year-over-year in Total Viewers, and flat in the demo.
Numbers for the week of Jan. 17:
| NBC | ABC | CBS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| • Total Viewers: | 10,000,000 | 8,910,000 | 6,690,000 |
| • A25-54: | 2,930,000 | 2,590,000 | 2,040,000 |
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