Evening News Ratings: Week of Sept. 22

By Chris Ariens 

evening news_2014Update 10/11/14: the numbers have been updated following a Nielsen ratings data glitch.

Another split in the evenings: “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams takes total viewers while “ABC World News Tonight with David Muir” takes the A25-54 demo. Compared to the same week last year Muir’s broadcast showed the most across-the-board growth: up +11% in viewers and up +9% in the demo.

“Nightly’s” lead on “World News Tonight” last week was 158,000 viewers (less than 2%). That’s the closest ABC has gotten to NBC in four weeks, which was Diane Sawyer’s final week, and “WNT” got within 40,000 viewers.

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“CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley” was also up in both measurements: up +3% in viewers and up +4% in the demo. “Nightly News” was up in viewers (+2%) but down in the demo (-7%) year-over-year.

Numbers for the week of Sept. 22, 2014:

NBC ABC CBS
• Total Viewers: 8,239,000 7,793,000 6,375,000
• A25-54: 1,821,000 1,900,000 1,513,000

 

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