NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS Delivers Best Season Start Since 2006
By: Caryn Robbins Oct. 28, 2014
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS was #1 in total viewers and the younger demo A18-49 for the week of October 20-24, 2014, according to Nielsen Media Research data. Nightly has now been the #1 evening newscast in total viewers for 267 consecutive weeks and 314 of the last 315 weeks.
The NBC broadcast is posting +1% growth in total viewers versus the previous year and delivering its best start to a season since 2006. NOTE: Nielsen has now provided corrected data starting with the week of 9/1. Other milestone points and comparisons are based on historical data that Nielsen will be revising. Weekly Highlights: Nightly delivered 8.402 million total viewers, leading ABC by +454,000 and CBS by +1.925 million.Nightly averaged a 1.8 A25-54 rating, +4 tenths ahead of CBS.
Among A25-54 (000), Nightly averaged 1.967 million viewers, +386,000 ahead of CBS.
Nightly delivered a 1.1 A18-49 rating, tied for #1 with ABC and topping CBS by +3 tenths.
Among A18-49, Nightly delivered 1.380 million viewers, topping ABC by +21,000 and CBS by +305,000.
WEEK OF OCTOBER 20-24, 2014
| Total Viewers | A25-54 Rating | A25-54 Viewers | A18-49 Rating | A18-49 Viewers | |
| NBC | 8.402 | 1.6 | 1.967 | 1.1 | 1.380 |
| CBS | 6.477 | 1.3 | 1.581 | 0.8 | 1.075 |
| ABC | 7.948 | 1.7 | 2.016 | 1.1 | 1.359 |
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