World News Tonight Regains No. 1 Spot in the Evenings

By Chris Ariens 

For the first time in more than a year, ABC’s World News Tonight was the most-watched evening newscast across the board.

The last time Muir’s newscast was No. 1 was the week of June 1, 2015. This is the fourth week in a row that ABC has won in total viewers. ABC’s win over NBC was by 866,000 viewers, or 12 percent. ABC led NBC by 72,000 demo viewers, or 4 percent.

Compared to the same week last year only World News Tonight saw viewer growth: up +5 percent. All three shows were down in the A25-54 demo: ABC was down -9 percent, NBC was down -11 percent and CBS was down -4 percent.

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It was one year ago this week that Lester Holt was named anchor of NBC Nightly News. The newscast has been No. 1 most of that time.

Due to NBA and NHL finals NBC and ABC were rated for 3 days: Nightly News on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, and World News Tonight on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. CBS Evening News was rated all 5 days.

Numbers for the week of June 6, 2016:

ABC NBC CBS
• Total Viewers: 8,227,000 7,341,000 6,367,000
• A25-54: 1,792,000 1,720,000 1,397,000

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