"ABC WORLD News with Diane Sawyer" ranked as the No. 1 evening newscast among Adults 25-54 for the week of April 7, 2014, according to Nielsen Media Research. Winning the week for the first time this season, "ABC WORLD News with Diane Sawyer" beat "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" by +12,000 Adults 25-54 (1.882 million vs. 1.870 million).
"World News" ranked No. 1 three times during the week in Adults 25-54, leading "NBC Nightly News" on Monday (+129,000 - 2.307 million vs. 2.178 million), on Tuesday (+172,000 - 1.925 million vs. 1.753 million) and on Friday (+37,000 - 1.515 million vs. 1.478 million). Further, "World News" aired the week's highest rated Adults 25-54 telecast with its Monday airing. For the 7th week running, "World News" was also up over the year-ago week in Adults 25-54 (+1% - 1.882 million vs. 1.872 million on w/o 4/8/13). In addition, "World News" stood as the only program to grow in the news demo on the same week last year as both "CBS Evening News" (-10%) and "NBC Nightly News" (-18%) were down by double digits. Further, the ABC evening newscast has turned in year-to-year news demo increases in 11 of the last 12 weeks. For the 2nd week in a row, "World News" narrowed its Total Viewer margins with "NBC Nightly News" both week to week (-11% - 797,000 vs. 899,000) and year to year (-5% - 797,000 vs. 837,000). "World News" saw its closest overall viewer performance with "Nightly News" in over 5 months - since w/o 10/21/13.EVENING NEWS (Week of April 7, 2014)
TOTAL VIEWERS |
ADULTS 25-54 |
ADULTS 18-49 |
HOUSEHOLDS |
|
7,378,000 |
1.6/7; 1,882,000 |
1.0/5; 1,268,000 |
4.9/10 |
|
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS |
8,175,000 |
1.6/7; 1,870,000 |
1.1/5; 1,389,000 |
5.6/11 |
CBS EVENING NEWS |
6,366,000 |
1.2/5; 1,495,000 |
0.8/4; 991,000 |
4.3/ 9 |
Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 Live + SD weeks of 4/7/14, 3/31/14 and 4/8/13. Most Current: 2013-2014 Season (9/23/13 - 4/13/14) and 2012-2013 Season (9/24/12 - 4/14/13).
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