"NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt" has won four straight weeks in total viewers, the news demo A25-54, and younger viewers A18-49 -- leading in all categories every week since Holt was named anchor. The NBC broadcast was up across-the-board compared to the same week last year, and was the only network evening newscast to post growth in the demo while both ABC & CBS declined year-to-year.
This marks the first time Nightly has won four consecutive weeks among both total viewers and the key demo since the week of January 19 through the week of February 9, 2015. Nightly has now won among total viewers for 5 of the last 6 weeks, 9 of the last 12 weeks, and 297 of the last 304 weeks. Compared to the same week last year, Nightly was up in total viewers (+1%, or +39,000), A25-54 viewers (+5%, or +82,000), and A18-49 viewers (+1%, or +11,000). Season-to-date, Nightly is #1 in total viewers, A25-54, and A18-49. Weekly Highlights: Nightly averaged 7.814 million total viewers, +309,000 (+4%) more than ABC WORLD NEWS Tonight and +1,326,000 (20%) ahead of CBS Evening News.Season-to-Date Highlights:
WEEK OF JULY 7-13, 2015
Total Viewers | A25-54 Rating | A25-54 Viewers | A18-49 Ratings | A18-49 Viewers | |
NBC | 7.814 | 1.6 | 1.876 | 1.1 | 1.335 |
CBS | 6.488 | 1.2 | 1.444 | 0.8 | 1.009 |
ABC | 7.505 | 1.5 | 1.795 | 1.0 | 1.252 |
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