Increases Viewership Across-the-Board Vs. Last Week
Continues to Improve Competitively, Narrows Key Demo Gap vs. ABC in Week-Over-Week & Year-Over-Year Measurements
Week of Oct 24 Ratings Highlights
- Nightly News hits a four-week high across the board with 6.657 million total viewers, 1.122 A25-54 viewers and 759,000 A18-49 viewers
- Nightly News increases viewership across the board vs. last week
- Nightly News is the #6 most-watched program, excluding sports and syndication
- Nightly News narrows its A25-54 gap vs. ABC by 14% in week-over-week measurements and by +36% in year-over-year measurements
Week of Oct 24: Nightly Stats
- Averages 6.657 million total viewers, topping CBS by +1.835 million (+38%)
- Nightly News marks a four-week high in total viewers andgrows +115,000 total viewers in week-over-week measurements
- Averages 1.122 million A25-54 viewers, beating CBS by +328,000 (+41%)
- Nightly News marks a four-week high in A25-54 viewers and grows +56,000 A25-54 viewers in week-over-week measurements
- In week over week, Nightly News narrows A25-54 gap vs. ABC by 14%
- In year over year, Nightly News narrows A25-54 gap vs. ABC by 36%
- Averages 759,000 A18-49 viewers, leading CBS by +222,000 (+41%)
- Nightly News marks a four-week high in A18-49 viewers and grows +22,000 A18-49 viewers in week-over-week measurements
- In year over year, Nightly News narrows A18-49 gap vs. ABC by 1%
- Across digital, Nightly saw 14.4 million video views and 1.4 hours viewed on & off network platforms, including clips and full episodes
- On YouTube, full episodes reached 731,000 views and 581,000 viewers
OCTOBER 2022 RATINGS: NIGHTLY NEWS HITS SIXTH-MONTH HIGH IN TOTAL VIEWERS, A25-54 & A18-49
Increases Viewership Across-the-Board vs. Last Month
Marks Most Narrow A25-54 Gap vs. ABC in Nearly a Year
Improves A25-54 Gap vs. ABC in & Month-Over-Month Measurements
October 2022: Ratings Highlights
- Nightly News hits a six-month high across the board with 6.633 million total viewers, 1.100 million A25-54 viewers and 754,000 A18-49 viewers
- Nightly News increases its viewership across the board vs. last month
- Nightly News is the #9 most-watched program in all of TV for the month, excluding specials, sports & syndication
- Nightly News improves in A25-54 vs. ABC, cutting the most recent month-over-month gap by 3% in October
- Nightly News marks its most narrow A25-54 gap vs. ABC in 11 months (since Nov 2021) and narrows the key demo gap vs. the network by 3% vs. last month
- Nightly narrows the total viewership gap vs. ABC in 13 out of the prior 15 months in year-over-year measurements
- Nightly News continues to beat CBS in the A25-54 & total viewers for the 193 consecutive month
October 2022: Ratings Stats
- Averages 6.633 million total viewers, topping CBS by +1.892 million (+40%), its largest advantage over the network in 6 months (since April 2022)
- Hits six-month high and increases total viewership vs. last month by +378,000
- In year over year, Nightly News improves thetotal viewership gap vs. ABC by 6%
- Nightly News marks its 193 consecutive month of beating CBS in totals viewers
- Averages 1.100 million A25-54 viewers, leading CBS by +322,000 (+41%),
- Hits six-month high and increases A25-54 viewership vs. last month by +40,000
- Marks most narrow A25-54 gap vs. ABC since Nov 21
- In month over month, Nightly News, improves the A25-54 gap vs. ABC by 3%
- In year over year, Nightly News improves theA25-54 gap vs. ABC by 11%
- Nightly News marks its 193 consecutive month of beating CBS in A25-54
- Averages 754,000 A18-49 viewers, beating CBS +240,000 (+47%)
- Hits six-month high and increases A18-49 viewership vs. last month by +41,000
- Nightly News marks its 332 consecutive month of beating CBS in A18-49
- In October, Nightly News full episodes and clips delivered more than 55 million monthly video views across on & off network platforms, its 4th straight month with more than 50 million video views
- On YouTube, Nightly News full episodes reached 777,000 video views and 623,000 video viewers, up 20% in month-over-month measurements
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WEEK OF 10/24/22
| Program | P25-54 | P18-49 | P2+ |
| Rtg | Rtg | Imps | |
| NBC NIGHTLY NEWS | 0.92 | 0.58 | 6,657 |
| CBS EVENING NEWS | 0.65 | 0.41 | 4,822 |
| ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT | 1.07 | 0.72 | 8,003 |
OCTOBER 2022
| Program | P25-54 | P18-49 | P2+ |
| Rtg | Rtg | Imps | |
| NBC NIGHTLY NEWS | 0.90 | 0.58 | 6,633 |
| CBS EVENING NEWS | 0.64 | 0.39 | 4,741 |
| ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT | 1.06 | 0.69 | 7,838 |
Nielsen 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.
