NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt has now won four months straight in both total viewers and the A25-54 demo.
But compared to the same week last year, all three newscasts were down in the measurement that matters to advertisers: the A25-54 demo. Nightly News was down -1 percent, ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir was down -14 percent and the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley was down -7 percent. But Pelley’s broadcast was the only one to experience total viewer growth: up +5 percent year-over-year.
Numbers for the week of Oct. 19, 2015:
| NBC | ABC | CBS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| • Total Viewers: | 8,122,000 | 7,846,000 | 6,815,000 |
| • A25-54: | 1,964,000 | 1,737,000 | 1,478,000 |