NBC NIGHTLY NEWS Continues as Most-Watched Network Evening Newscast

By: Tyler Peterson Aug. 06, 2013

"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" continued as America's most-watched network evening newscast for the week ending August 2, 2013, according to Nielsen Media Research data. Nightly has won in total viewers for 203 consecutive weeks, and in 250 of the past 251 weeks.

Weekly Highlights:
· Nightly delivered 7.490 million total viewers, +530,000 more than ABC World News' 6.960 million and +1,692,000 more than CBS Evening News' 5.798 million.
· Nightly averaged a 5.2/11 Household rating, ahead of ABC's 4.8/10 and CBS' 4.0/8.
· Nightly delivered a 1.6 A25-54 rating, tied with ABC and +4 tenths more than CBS's 1.2 rating.
· Among A25-54 (000), Nightly averaged 1.909 million viewers, +68,000 ahead of World News' 1.841 million, and +466,000 ahead of Evening News' 1.443 million.

Trends:
· Nightly has won in total viewers for 203 consecutive weeks, and in 250 of the past 251 weeks.
· Nightly has won in viewers A25-54 for 244 of the past 245 weeks.
· Season-to-date, Nightly leads World News by +764,000 total viewers, and by +287,000 Adult 25-54 viewers (+2 tenths).

NOTE: The comparable week in 2012 included the first full week of the London 2012 Olympic Games.