Season to date, ABC News' "World News Tonight" stands as the No. 1 evening newscast in Adults 25-54, leading "NBC Nightly News" by 1,000 news demo viewers (2.113 million vs. 2.112 million). This marks the first time in 19 years that "World News Tonight" ranks as the top evening newscast in Adults 25-54 at this point of the season - since the 1995-96 season.
"World News Tonight with David Muir" scored an across-the-board win in all key target demos: Total Viewers (7.945 million), Adults 25-54 (1.974 million) and Adults 18-49 (1.389 million) for the week of June 1, 2015, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. "World News Tonight" beat NBC's "Nightly News" (7.751 million, 1.812 million and 1.302 million, respectively) by 194,000 Total Viewers, by 162,000 Adults 25-54 and by 87,000 Adults 18-49, delivering its widest margins since April - since weeks of 4/6/15, 4/20/15 and 4/20/15, respectively. "World News Tonight" improved on the same week last year (7.200 million, 1.866 million and 1.324 million, respectively, on w/o 6/2/14) also in all three key target demos: Total Viewers (+10%), Adults 25-54 (+6%), Adults 18-49 (+5%). World News Tonight" was up the most year to year in both key adult demos as the "CBS Evening News" (flat/+3%) was mixed, while "NBC Nightly News" (-3%/-6%) was down. For the 2nd week in a row, "World News Tonight" built on its prior week's performance (7.650 million, 1.880 million and 1.264 million, respectively, for w/o 5/25/15) across all key target demos: Total Viewers (+4%), Adults 25-54 (+5%) and Adults 18-49 (+10%), hitting 6-week highs - since w/o 4/20/15. In fact, World News Tonight" turned in the largest week-to-week increases in each of the three measures compared to "CBS Evening News" (+3%/-3%/-2%) and "NBC Nightly News" (+1%/+3%/-1%).Videos