ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir won the Thanksgiving week among A25-54 viewers, by the slimmest of margins during the shortest of weeks. (The averages for ABC and CBS are based on two days, Monday and Tuesday, while NBC’s average is based on three days: Monday, Tuesday, and Friday).
ABC led NBC by just 1,000 viewers (or .04 percent), but it was enough to give ABC its first demo win in four months. NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt won the week among total viewers by 3 percent over ABC.
The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley was the only broadcast to see growth among total viewers, up +5 percent vs. the same week last year. In the demo, NBC was flat, while ABC and CBS were down 9 percent.
Nightly News also wins November sweeps in both viewers (its 33rd consecutive total viewer sweeps win) and in the demo, but was down -3 percent in viewers and flat in the demo. Compared to Nov. 2014, when World News Tonight won the demo for the first time in 18 years, ABC lost -10 percent of its A25-54 viewers. The CBS Evening News had its best November since 2006 and was up +5 percent in viewers vs. Nov. 2014, closing the viewership gap with NBC by 720,000 viewers and with ABC by 430,000 viewers. CBS was down -5 percent in the demo.
Numbers for the week of Nov. 23, 2015:
| NBC | ABC | CBS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| • Total Viewers: | 9,946,000 | 9,676,000 | 8,009,000 |
| • A25-54: | 2,340,000 | 2,341,000 | 1,809,000 |
Numbers for the Nov. 2015 Sweeps:
| NBC | ABC | CBS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| • Total Viewers: | 9,223,000 | 8,964,000 | 7,769,000 |
| • A25-54: | 2,269,000 | 2,059,000 | 1,752,000 |