Marks Biggest Audiences in Three Months
Only Evening Newscast to Grow Across the Board, Up Double-Digit Percentages in Year-Over-Year
Week of June 8 Highlights
- Nightly News wins the week in the key A25-54 demo, marking its largest win over ABC in four months
- Nightly News is the only evening newscast to grow across the board vs. prior week and year
- Nightly News is up double-digit %s vs. last year: +14% in total viewers, 33% in A25-54 and +32% in A18-49
- Nightly News marks its largest total viewer and A25-54 audiences in three months (best since 3/2/26)
- Nightly News delivers its best streak of year-over-year growth in the demo since November 2008
- Nightly News marks 19 weeks of across-the-board growth vs. last year
- Nightly News closes the year-over-year A18-49 gap vs ABC by 62%
- Nightly News continues to deliver its closest key demo gap vs. ABC in six years for the current season
- Nightly News is the only network evening newscast to grow its viewership across the board vs. last season
Week of June 8 Stats
- Averages 6.7 million total viewers, topping CBS by +2.779 million (+71%)
- Increases total viewership vs. last year by +839,000 and last week by +370,000
- Marks biggest total viewership in 14 weeks (since 3/2/26)
- Narrows total viewer gap vs. ABC by 40% vs. last year, 29% vs. last week
- Grows total audience season to date by +165,000
- Averages 1.1 million A25-54 viewers, beating ABC by +92,000 (+10%) and CBS by +491,000 (+87%)
- Increases A25-54 viewers vs. last year by +260,000, +161,000 vs. last week
- Nightly News’ A25-54 gap vs. ABC is 48% better vs. prior year at this point in the season, marking its closest demo gap vs. the network in 6 years
- Nightly News is the only evening newscast to grow vs. last season, +69,000
- Averages 744,000 A18-49 viewers, beating CBS by +359,000 (+93%)
- Increases A18-49 viewers vs. last year by +181,000 and last week by +146,000
- Narrows A18-49 gap vs. ABC by 62% vs. last year, 67% vs. last week
- Nightly News’ A18-49 gap vs. ABC is 33% better vs. prior year at this point in the season, marking its closest demo gap vs. the network in 6 years
- Nightly News continues to grow A18-49 viewers vs. last season, +62,000
WEEK OF 6/8/2026
Note: Nightly News and CBS Evening News were based on 4-day averages, retitling on Friday. ABC World News Tonight was based on a 1-day average, retitling Tue-Fri due to NBA Finals and NHL Stanley Cup coverage.
| Program | P25-54 | P18-49 | P2+ |
| Imps | Imps | Imps | |
| NBC NIGHTLY NEWS | 1,053 | 744 | 6,674 |
| CBS EVENING NEWS | 562 | 385 | 3,895 |
| ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT | 961 | 800 | 7,638 |
Nielsen Big Data + Panel, L+SD, Week of 6/8/2026 through Thursday, 6/11/2026. Average audience based on regularly-titled telecasts only.
