"ABC WORLD News with Diane Sawyer" stood as the No. 1 evening newscast for the 2nd straight week among Adults 25-54 for the week of April 14, 2014, according to Nielsen Media Research. "World News" scored its first back-to-back news demo win in over 6 years - since weeks of 3/17/08 and 3/24/08. In addition, "World News" (2.093 million) widened its Adults 25-54 lead over "Nightly News" (2.008 million) from the previous week's lead (85,000 vs. 12,000) to post its largest margin of victory over the NBC program in more than 5 1/2 years - since w/o 7/28/08.
"World News" out delivered "NBC Nightly News" in Adults 25-54 in 3 of the 5 head-to-head airings: Monday (+53,000 - 2.315 million vs. 2.262 million), Wednesday (+124,000 - 2.136 million vs. 2.012 million) and Thursday (+270,000 - 2.077 million vs. 1.807 million). For the 2nd consecutive week, "World News" owned the week's No. 1 Adults 25-54 telecast with its Monday airing. Further, "World News'" head-to-head victory on Thursday saw its largest single-day advantage over a "Nightly News" telecast in more than 5 years - since 11/18/08, based on regular telecasts. "World News" improved over the previous week in Total Viewers (+7%), Adults 25-54 (+11%) and Adults 18-49 (+11%) - 7.378 million, 1.882 million and 1.268 million, respectively, for w/o 4/7/14. In fact, "World News" was up the most in both measures compared to "CBS Evening News" (-1%/flat/flat) and "NBC Nightly News" (+5%/+7%/+7%). For the 3rd consecutive week, "World News" cut its Total Viewer margins with "NBC Nightly News" both week to week (-19% - 647,000 vs. 797,000) and year to year (-52% - 647,000 vs. 1.346 million). "World News" saw its closest overall viewer performance with "Nightly News" in over 5 months (since w/o 10/21/13) and 2nd smallest gap this season.Videos