Evening News Race: NBC On Top; ABC Wins In Demo; Bad Week For Bob

By Brian 

ABC’s World News Tonight “was the most-watched evening news broadcast among Adults 25-54 viewers last week,” marking the fifth time in six weeks that WNT has “outperformed or tied” NBC Nightly News in the key demo, ABC said today. NBC still came in first place among total viewers. Here are the numbers:

NBC: 8,860,000 total viewers; 2.4/10 demo

ABC: 8,790,000 total viewers; 2.5/10 demo

CBS: 6,240,000 total viewers; 1.6/7 demo

> The CBS Evening News had its lowest total viewer and demo delivery since at least 1987 — but the program had low coverage on Monday, 91%, due to NCAA finals.

> Evening news viewership tends to decline once daylight savings time begins…

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