Marks Biggest Total Viewer & A18-49 Audiences in 8 Years for First Week of a Winter Olympics
Only Evening Newscast to Grow in Key Demos vs. Last Season, Continues to Deliver Closest Demo Gap vs. ABC in 6 Years for Current Season
Week of February 9 Highlights
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- Nightly News wins the week in the key A25-54 & A18-49 demos, averaging 1.240 million A25-54 viewers and 917,00 A18-49 viewers
- Nightly News delivers its largest demo wins over ABC’s World News Tonight in three months
- Nightly News marks its largest total viewer audience for the first week of a Winter Games in 8 years
- Nightly News is the only evening newscast to grow in A25-54 & A18-49 vs. last season as it continues to deliver its closest demo gap vs. ABC in six years for the current season
- Nightly News is the only evening newscast to grow across the board vs. last week and year, markings its largest audiences in a year and a half
Week of February 9 Stats
- Averages 7.8 million total viewers, topping CBS by +3.634 million (+87%)
- Only evening newscast to increase total viewership vs. both last week (+564,000) and last year (+728,000)
- Reaches largest total viewer audience in 80 weeks (best since 7/29/24)
- Narrows total viewer gap vs. ABC by 51% vs. last week, 41% vs. last year
- Averages 1.240 000 A25-54 viewers, beating ABC by +135,000 (+12%) and CBS by +782,000 (+170%)
- Nightly News is the only evening newscast to increase A25-54 viewers vs. last week(+140,000) and year (+221,000)
- Delivers its largest A25-54 audience since 8/5/24
- Nightly News’ A25-54 gap vs. ABC is 45% better vs. prior year at this point in the season, marking its closest demo gap vs. the network in 6 years
- Averages 917,000 A18-49 viewers, beating ABC by +94,000 (+11%) and CBS by +553,000 (+152%)
- Nightly News is the only evening newscast to grow A18-49 viewership vs. both last week (128,000) and last year (+33,000)
- Marks its largest A18-49 audience since 8/5/24
- Nightly News’ A18-49 gap vs. ABC is 29% better vs. prior year at this point in the season
WEEK OF 2/9/2026
| Program | P25-54 | P18-49 | P2+ |
| Imps | Imps | Imps | |
| NBC NIGHTLY NEWS | 1,240 | 917 | 7,797 |
| CBS EVENING NEWS | 458 | 364 | 4,163 |
| ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT | 1,105 | 823 | 8,657 |
Source: Nielsen Big Data + Panel, L+SD, 2/9/2026-2/14/2026. Nielsen Panel for data prior to 2023. Average audience based on regularly-titled telecasts only.
