Improves Across the Board Gaps vs. ABC Week Over Week
Narrows Key Demo Gap vs. ABC for 20 of the Last 22 Weeks
Season to Date, Closes A25-54 Gap vs. ABC by 24% vs. Same Time Period Last Year
Week of April 24: Ratings Highlights
- Nightly News is the #5 most-watched program in all of TV last week in total viewers, averaging 6.454 million total viewers, excluding specials, sports & syndication
- Nightly News grows across the board vs. last week and increases total viewership by +186,000
- Nightly News narrows the key demo gaps vs. ABC year over year for 20 of the last 22 weeks
- Nightly News improves across the board gaps vs. ABC week over week, including by 16% in A25-54
- Season to date, Nightly News improves its competitive position versus ABC by 24% in the A25-54 demo compared to the same time period last year
Week of April 24: Nightly Stats
- Averages 6.454 million total viewers, topping CBS by +1.663 million (+35%)
- Increases total viewership by +186,000 vs. last week
- Week over week, Nightly cuts total viewership gap vs. ABC by 3%
- Nightly News Averages 974,000 A25-54 viewers, beating CBS by +245,000 (+34%)
- Increases key demo viewership by +4,000 vs. last week
- Nightly News cuts year-over-year A25-54 gap vs. ABC by 31%
- Week over week, Nightly narrows A25-54 viewership gap vs. ABC by 16%
- Averages 671,000 A18-49 viewers, leading CBS by +187,000 (+39%)
- Nightly News cuts the year-over-year A18-49 gap vs. ABC by 24%
- Week over week, narrows A18-49 gap vs. ABC by 23%
- Across digital, Nightly delivers 6.4 million video views and 400.6K hours viewed on & off network platforms
- On YouTube, weekday episodes reached 1.1 million views and 825,000 viewers
WEEK OF APRIL 24-30, 2023
| Program | P25-54 | P18-49 | P2+ | |
| Imps | Imps | Imps | ||
| NBC NIGHTLY NEWS | 974 | 671 | 6,454 | |
| CBS EVENING NEWS | 729 | 484 | 4,791 | |
| ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT | 1,221 | 844 | 7,842 |
Note: 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.
