It’s another split win in the evenings, as NBC’s Lester Holt gives Nightly News a total viewer win — its first in 5 weeks — and ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir takes the A25-54 demo. NBC’s lead was a very slim .5 percent, while ABC’s win in the demo was by a much wider 7.5 percent.
Even with big news from Baltimore last week, all three newscasts were down compared to the same week last year. Nightly News is down -14 percent in viewers and down -18 in the demo; World News Tonight is down -2 percent in viewers and down -11 percent in the demo; and the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley is down -7 percent in viewers and down -17 percent in the demo. This same week last year included coverage of severe weather across the nation.
Numbers for the week of April 27, 2015:
| NBC | ABC | CBS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| • Total Viewers: | 7,726,000 | 7,687,000 | 6,576,000 |
| • A25-54: | 1,726,000 | 1,856,000 | 1,528,000 |