“NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” makes it 165 weeks in a row at #1, topping #2 “World News with Diane Sawyer” by nearly one million viewers.
For the third week in a row, “World News” narrowed its week-to-week gaps with “Nightly” in both Total Viewers and A25-54 viewers.
“CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley” placed third, but for the second week in a row, it was the only newscast to be up in both Total Viewers and A25-54 viewers year-over-year.
Numbers for the week of December 12, 2011:
| NBC | ABC | CBS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| • Total Viewers: | 8,754,000 | 7,784,000 | 6,303,000 |
| • A25-54: | 2,304,000 | 2,017,000 | 1,800,000 |