Improves Across-the-Board Gap vs. ABC Year Over Year
Season to Date, ‘Nightly News’ Closes A25-54 Gap Vs. ABC by 51% vs. Same Time Period Last Year
Week of September 25: Ratings Highlights
- Nightly News is the #5 most-watched program in all of TV last week in total viewers, averaging 6.213 million total viewers, excluding specials, sports & syndication
- Nightly News improves its across-the-board gap vs. ABC year over year, marking the 12th consecutive week Nightly has improved its year over year key demo gaps vs. ABC
- Nightly News improves its total viewer gap vs. ABC week over week; marks most narrow gap in 7 weeks (since 8/7/23)
- Season to date, Nightly News improves its competitive position versus ABC by 51% in the A25-54 demo compared to the same time period last year
Week of September 25: Nightly Stats
- Averages 6.213 million total viewers, topping CBS by +1.765 million (+40%)
- Week over week, Nightly cuts its total viewership gap vs. ABC by 4%
- Year over year, Nightly narrows its total viewership gap vs. ABC by 13%
- Marks most narrow total viewer gap vs ABC in 7 weeks (since 8/7/23)
- Averages 968,000 A25-54 viewers, leading CBS by +345,000 (+55%)
- Year over year, Nightly cuts its A25-54 viewership gap vs. ABC by 66%
- Marks the 12th consecutive week Nightly has improved its year over year A25-54 gaps vs. ABC
- Averages 651,000 A18-49 viewers, beating CBS by +243,000 (+59%)
- Year over year, Nightly improves its A18-49 viewership gap vs. ABC by 54%
- Across digital, Nightly delivers 16 million video views and 1.6 million hours viewed on & off network platforms
- On YouTube, weekday episodes reached 929,400 views and 720,000 viewers
WEEK OF SEPT. 25 – OCT. 1, 2023
| Program | P25-54 | P18-49 | P2+ |
| Imps | Imps | Imps | |
| NBC NIGHTLY NEWS | 968 | 651 | 6,213 |
| CBS EVENING NEWS | 623 | 408 | 4,448 |
| ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT | 1,055 | 726 | 7,441 |
Note: This was the first week of the 2023-24 Broadcast Season. ABC World News Tonight was based on a 4-day average (Tues-Fri) due to retitling on Monday, 9/25.
Ratings now reflect the addition of Out of Home (OOH) viewership that began being measured on Aug. 31,2020 across only 44 markets tracked by Nielsen Media Research. NBC Nightly News, World News Tonight and CBS Evening News’ ratings are comprised of telecasts with regular titling and include afternoon and overnight airings on owned stations. Digital ratings sourcing: Adobe Analytics and Partner Portals; YouTube Analytics Portal.
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