Evening News Ratings: Week of June 16

By Chris Ariens 

EveningNewsNew“NBC Nightly News with Brian Wiliams” wins the week of June 16 in both total viewers and the A25-54 demo. “Nightly News” was up +6% in viewers vs. the same week last year and is posting its biggest season-to-date audience (9.133 million) since the 2005-06 season. The NBC newscast was down -4% in the demo year-over-year.

ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer” was up +1% in viewers and up +4% in the demo and has narrowed its season margin with “Nightly News” in the demo nearly in half (-48% – 166,000 vs. 318,000) compared to its season margin from the same point last year.

The “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley” showed the most growth of all three broadcasts, in both viewers and the demo: up +7% in viewers and up +9% in the demo compared to the same week last year.

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Numbers for the week of June 16, 2014:

NBC ABC CBS
• Total Viewers: 7,992,000 6,979,000 6,044,000
• A25-54: 1,827,000 1,793,000 1,453,000

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