Evening News Ratings: Week of January 22

By Chris Ariens 

ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir was the most-watched evening newscast last week, and the only one to see growth.

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt continued to lead among younger viewers with a +6 percent lead on World News Tonight. This week last year, NBC held a +17 percent demo lead on ABC.

Compared to the same week last year ABC was up +6 percent in viewers and up +1 percent in the demo; Nightly News was down -1 percent and down -9 percent, respectively. The CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor was down -12 percent in viewers and down -24 percent in the demo compared to the same week last year.

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Numbers for the week of Jan. 22, 2018:

ABC NBC CBS
• Total Viewers: 9,574,000 9,286,000 6,915,000
• A25-54: 2,000,000 2,122,000 1,413,000

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