Evening News Ratings: Week of July 15

By Merrill Knox 

Another week on top for “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,” which leads “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” by +659,000 Total Viewers and +95,000 A25-54 viewers. Sawyer’s newscast leads “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley” by +964,000 Total Viewers and +256,000 viewers in the demo.

For the first time in three years, “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” won in the A25-54 demo twice in the course of the week. ABC won among younger viewers by +37,000 on Monday and +71,000 on Tuesday.

All three newscasts were down in the A25-54 demographic compared to the same week last year: NBC was down -10%, ABC was down -7% and CBS was down -10%. In Total Viewers, NBC was flat, ABC was down -4% and CBS was up +6%.

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Numbers for the week of July 15, 2013:

NBC ABC CBS
• Total Viewers: 7,669,000 7,010,000 6,046,000
• A25-54: 1,913,000 1,818,000 1,562,000

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