Delivers Largest Total Viewer & A25-54 Audiences Since March
Narrows Across-the-Board Gaps vs. ABC, Including by Double Digits in Year-Over-Year Measurements
Marks Closest Demo Gaps vs. ABC in 6 Years for Current Season
Week of October 27 Highlights
Tom Llamas anchored Monday-Thursday, Peter Alexander anchored Friday.
- Nightly News is the only evening newscast to grow across the board in year-over-year and week-over-week measurements
- Nightly News delivers its largest total viewer and A25-54 audiences since March
- Nightly News narrows across-the-board gaps vs ABC, including by double digits in year-over-year measurements
- Nightly News marks 7th consecutive week of closing A25-54 gap vs. ABC vs. last year, most recently by 45%
- Nightly News delivers its closest demo gaps vs. ABC in six years for the current season
Week of October 27 Stats
- Averages 6.155 million total viewers, topping CBS by +2.085 million (+51%)
- Hits a 30-week high in total viewers, best since 3/31/25
- Only newscast to grow in total viewers vs. last week, +312,000
- Leads competition in total viewer growth vs. last year, +329,000
- Nightly News closes viewership gap vs. ABC by 21% vs. last week, 10% vs. last year
- Averages 848,000 A25-54 viewers, beating CBS by +357,000 (+73%)
- Nightly News increases A25-54 viewers vs. last week, +45,000
- Marks largest A25-54 audience since March 3, 2025
- Nightly News is the only evening newscast to grow vs. last year in A25-54 demo, +59,000
- Closes A25-54 gap vs. ABC by 17% vs. last week, 45% vs. last year
- Nightly News’ A25-54 gap vs. ABC is 51% better vs. prior year at this point in the season, marking its closest demo gap vs. the network in 6 years
- Averages 556,000 A18-49 viewers, beating CBS by +193,000 (+54%)
- Increases A18-49 viewership vs. last week, +50,000 and marks its largest A18-49 audience since July 14, 2025
- Leads competition in yearly growth, +50,000
- Narrows A25-54 vs. ABC by 7% vs. last week, 10% vs. last year
- Nightly News’ A18-49 gap vs. ABC is 44% better vs. prior year at this point in the season, marking its closest A18-49 gap vs. ABC in 6 years
WEEK OF 10/27/2025
| Program | P25-54 | P18-49 | P2+ |
| Imps | Imps | Imps | |
| NBC NIGHTLY NEWS | 848 | 556 | 6,155 |
| CBS EVENING NEWS | 491 | 363 | 4,070 |
| ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT | 949 | 679 | 7,755 |
Nielsen Big Data + Panel, L+SD, 10/27/2025-11/2/2025. Average audience based on regularly-titled telecasts only. Note: ABC World News Tonight was based on 3-day average (Tue-Thu), retitling on Monday due to NFL impact (MNF) and on Friday likely due to Disney networks being unavailable on YouTube TV since late Thursday evening. CBS Evening News was based on a 4-day average, retitling Friday due to unknown reasons.
