For the week of March 10, 2014, "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" averaged 8.059 million Total Viewers and a 1.8 rating/7 share/2.100 million in Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. For the 2nd straight week, "World News" posted gains on the year-ago week in both Total Viewers (+12%) and Adults 25-54 (+12%) - 7.193 million and 1.873 million, respectively, on w/o 3/11/13. Delivering year-to-year news demo increases in 7 of the last 8 weeks, the ABC evening newscast improved the most year-to-year in Adults 25-54 compared to "CBS Evening News" (-7%) and "NBC Nightly News" (+6%).
"World News" ranked No. 1 in Adults 25-54 on Friday (3/14/13), leading "NBC Nightly News" on the night by +75,000 demo viewers (1.793 million vs. 1.718 million). For the 4th week in a row, "World News" cut its week-to-week Total Viewer gap with "NBC Nightly News" (-20% - 960,000 vs. 1.193 million) to hit its closest overall viewer performance with the NBC program in 7 weeks - since w/o 1/20/14. "World News" narrowed its year-to-year Adults 25-54 margin with "NBC Nightly News" by double-digits (-53% - 99,000 vs. 210,000) for the 3rd week running. In fact, less than 100,000 Adult 25-54 viewers have separated "World News" and "NBC Nightly News" for the last 3 weeks (77,000 for w/o 3/3/14; 92,000 for w/o 2/24/14). Season to date, "World News" is up versus the same point last season in both Total Viewers (+3%) and Adults 25-54 (+3%), delivering its most-watched season in 5 years and best news demo number in 3 years - since the 2008-09 and the 2010-11 seasons, respectively. "World News" also stands as the only evening newscast to improve its demo performance from the previous season compared to "CBS Evening News" (-6%) and "NBC Nightly News" (flat).Videos