NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt wins the week edging ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir by just 20,000 viewers, or a quarter percent. Compared to the same week last year only ABC grew its audience (+1 percent) while NBC lost viewers (-4 percent).
In the A25-54 demo, all three newscasts were down vs. the same week last year: ABC was down the most, -10 percent, followed by the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley down -4 percent and Nightly News down -3 percent.
Due to the Labor Day holiday ABC and CBS are based on four days (Tuesday-Friday) while NBC is based on three days. Thursday was excluded for NBC due to the NFL season opening game.
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Numbers for the week of Sept. 5, 2016:
| NBC | ABC | CBS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| • Total Viewers: | 7,898,000 | 7,878,000 | 6,244,000 |
| • A25-54: | 1,944,000 | 1,679,000 | 1,332,000 |