Delivers Largest Total Viewership in Nearly 9 Months
For Third Consecutive Week, ‘Nightly News’ is Only Evening Newscast to Grow Across the Board vs. Last Year
Continues to Mark Closest Demo Gaps vs. ABC in 6 Years for Current Season
Week of November 11 Highlights
- Nightly News ranks #1 in the key A25-54 demo on Wednesday
- Nightly News hits a nearly 9 month high in total viewers and marks its third consecutive week as the only newscast to grow across the board vs. last year
- Nightly News delivers its closest demo gaps vs. ABC in six years for the current season
- Nightly News is the #4 most-watched show of the week with 6.676 million total viewers (LS, excluding specials, sports & syndication)
Week of November 11 Stats
- Averages 6.676 million total viewers, topping CBS by +2.506 million (+60%)
- Hits a nearly 9 month high in total viewers (best since 2/17/25)
- Increases total viewership by +9,000 vs. last week, +423,000 vs. last year
- Closes total viewership gap vs. ABC by 40% vs. last year, 10% better vs. prior year at this point in the season
- Averages 896,000 A25-54 viewers, beating CBS by +369,000 (+70%)
- Nightly News increases A25-54 viewers vs. last year, +34,000
- Nightly News’ A25-54 gap vs. ABC is 59% better vs. prior year at this point in the season, marking its closest demo gap vs. the network in 6 years
- Nightly News narrows the A25-54 gap vs. ABC by 37% vs. last year
- Averages 576,000 A18-49 viewers, beating CBS by +200,000 (+53%)
- Increases A18-49 viewership vs. last year, +7,000
- Nightly News’ A18-49 gap vs. ABC is 47% better vs. prior year at this point in the season, marking its closest A18-49 gap vs. ABC in 6 years
WEEK OF 11/10/2025
Program P25-54 P18-49 P2+ Imps Imps Imps NBC NIGHTLY NEWS 896 576 6,676 CBS EVENING NEWS 527 376 4,170 ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT 960 689 7,572 Nielsen Big Data + Panel, L+SD, 11/10/2025-11/16/2025. Average audience for NBC and CBS based on regularly-titled telecasts only. ABC averages are based on retitled telecasts.
Note: ABC WNT was retitled for the entire week. All ABC ratings are based on the retitled averages of last week.
