For the week of January 20, 2014, "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" averaged 9.174 million Total Viewers and a 2.1 rating/7 share/2.479 million in Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. "World News" improved over the previous week (8.468 million and 2.175 million, respectively, on w/o 1/13/14) in both Total Viewers (+8%) and Adults 25-54 (+14%). In fact, "World News" hit a new season high in Adults 25-54 to turn in its best news demo performance in nearly 3 years - since w/o 1/31/11.
For the 3rd time in the last 4 weeks, "World News" built on the year-ago week in both Total Viewers (+11%) and Adults 25-54 (+17%) - 8.258 million and 2.118 million, respectively, on w/o 1/21/13. In fact, growing the most year to year in Adult 25-54 viewers, "World News" (+361,000) nearly tripled the combined increase (+191%; +124,000) of both "CBS Evening News" (+84,000) and "NBC Nightly News" (+40,000). "World News" ranked No. 1 twice during the course of the week in Adults 25-54, leading "NBC Nightly News" on Wednesday by +6,000 demo viewers (2.449 million vs. 2.443 million on 1/22/14) and on Friday by +262,000 demo viewers (2.523 million vs. 2.261 million on 1/24/14). In fact, leading the evening for the 3rd week in a row, "World News'" head-to-head victory on Friday produced 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" cut its Adults 25-54 gap with "NBC Nightly News" week to week (-31% - 106,000 vs. 154,000), to score its closest news demo performance with the NBC program since season premiere week 4 months ago - since w/o 9/23/13.Videos