NBC, ABC & CBS Evening News Ratings: Two Networks Hit Trouble
What To Know
- ABC News led the evening news ratings for the week of April 6.
- CBS and NBC saw major declines in their key demo viewership throughout the week.
- The return of Artemis II on April 10 also brought in big numbers for ABC.
The evening news ratings for the week of April 6 are in, and they showed some troubling stats for CBS and NBC, while ABC remained on top in both total viewers and the key Adults 25 to 54 demo.
ABC World News Tonight, hosted by David Muir, averaged 8.417 million total viewers and 1.067 million in the key demo. Compared to the previous week, this was down 2% in total viewers and flat in the key demo, and compared to the same week in 2025, the show was up in both total viewers and the key demo by 12% and 5%, respectively.
Over on NBC, NBC Nightly News, hosted by Tom Llamas, brought in an average of 6.434 million total viewers and 909,000 in the key demo. This was down 4% for total viewers and down 13% in the key demo compared to the prior week. However, compared to the same week last year, NBC was up 6% in total viewers and up 7% in the Adults demo.
CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil continued to trail its competitors, bringing in 3.807 million average total viewers and 477,000 average viewers in the key demo for the week of April 6. Compared to the week before, this was down 8% in total viewers and down 16% in the 25-53 demo. There was a slight improvement (2%) in average total viewers compared to the same week last year, but the show was down 3% in the key demo compared to this week in 2025.
ABC specifically had a big night on April 10 when it aired live coverage of Artemis II’s return to Earth. Muir hosted the hour-long event at 7:30/6:30c, and it brought in 9.77 million total viewers and 2.362 million in the 25 to 54 demo.
This led the night against all other networks. Fox News and CBS News followed with 4.999 million and 4.585 million total viewers, and 543,000 and 843,000 in the key demo, respectively. Meanwhile, NBC News’ coverage of the space event brought in 3.912 million total viewers and 946,000 in the Adults demo.
CBS Evening News, Weeknights, 6:30/5:30c, CBS
NBC Nightly News, Weeknights, 6:30/5:30c, NBC
ABC World News Tonight, Weeknights, 6:30/5:30c, ABC
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I used to watch CBS news but now that the network is destroying 60 Minutes, I won't watch the news on CBS.
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Has everything to do with CBS leadership, not the news. ABC reinstated Kimmel, CBS fired Colbert and is trying to destroy 60 Minutes. I still watch 60 Minutes because ABC and NBC have no equivalent. Ellison is not a fan of mine!!!
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I watched CBS regularly until they strayed from the middle. I want proper news reporting not leaning to one or the other.
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CBS has NEVER been in the middle.
NEVER.
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We just need The News. No Drama. No right or left. Just news and clean entertainment. Hike they did 30 years ago.
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"Strayed to the middle." That is an interesting phrase and clearly articulates the problem in our political discourse in this country.
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Strayed FROM the middle, Lou. FROM, not to.
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Because of the resent changes at CBS the only thing I watch is the late show with Colbert. When his show ends I am done with CBS.
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Colbert the trump bashing show like Kimmel. Late night is no longer good
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...recent...
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The CBS leadership shift to the right is the reason so many of us no longer watch.
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I think they are reporting fairly
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They need to just report the news. No right or left bull.
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Better they left leaning nbc abc
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I've been tuning to David Muir a lot more ever since Lester Holt left NBC nightly news, but I watch Tom Llamas every now and then. I prefer Norah O'Donnell on CBS. I've never watched Tony Dokoupil since he defended Jan 6, and I don't plan to watch CBS after Colbert ends in May.
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defended or just didn't show bias one way or the other? a lot of people mix the two up
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I don't like any of them. Too much time dedicated to commercials, too much time spent on what's coming up, very little in depth coverage and rarely ask politicians tough questions.
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What do you watch instead, Steve? I’m trying to figure out myself
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I used to watch CBS News with Nora O'Donnell. I don’t like David Ellison who owns Skydance that took over Paramount including CBS. There will be a change to right wing some day. I have shifted to ABC.
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people that never watched cbs say the same thing.
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I used to watch CBS, but after they fired Dubois and Dickerson, I watch David Muir now. Right wing people own CBS now.
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cbs isn't right wing though. i still watch and it went more center with the change
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I used to watch the Sunday morning news and then Maraget Brennan Face the Nation but now I just don't tune in at all. I don't want to watch Fox Deux. Now CNN is going that way as well. No Fox Trois for me.
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I think they're all full of it. All of them. Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS and whatever other ones there are. Even the "independent journalists" are biased one way or the other. Open your eyes to the world around us, and make your own opinion, not just ones they feed us
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Xfinity has 11.27 million cabe subscribers. Xfinity doesn't have ABC now due to financial dispute with Scripts. ABC is the station that I watch all day from GMA, talk shows, to World News. Missing my evening shows like both 911s, Grey's Anatomy, High Potential, Will Trent, RJ Decker.
I may drop everything I have with them & cut the cord if I can find reliable internet in my building.
Over 11 million viewers can no longer watch those shows so it has to greatly affect those stats.
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I like the CBS evening news a lot. Tony is out there with the people, hearing what the ordinary people’s opinions are. I want to hear what people think about the War and the what nots and he brings it out there. I don’t want to hear about the numbers in status ? Where does that come from? I want to hear it from we the people.
It’s not his fault the network has poor leadership.
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Who cares "what people think about the war"? I have a mind of my own. I don't care that Sally in FL loves Cheeto and wants a war. His job is to report what happened.
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So much for a decent opinion. Why does someone need to resort to insults
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Want to near what the average guy thinks? Go to the bar. After 3 beers, people are experts on everything.
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Couldn't agree more. Tony can try to connect all he wants but his elite attitude shows through.
Give us a summary of the news of the day without comments or opinions from anyone, including average Americans. Like they say, opinions are like a h, everyone has one.
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Tony is a disappointment. His defense of the January 6 rioters was my last straw for CBS news. I've watched CBS news ever since Dan Rather and they've lost their objectivity. I've started watching ABC now.
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Agree 100%..
Don't even record the shows I used to watch. Shame the good shows are all loosing viewership. Hope they will eventually jump ship.
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he didn't defend them, he was being a moderate and not a hot head about it
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No one is going to watch Dokoupil, inauthentic. Can't believe anyone can watch CBS Morning with Gayle and especially Matt Gutman, Tony D. 2.0.....like clones of each other. Nate was great on the Neighborhood. He is a refreshing change to all the egos on news shows.
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I watch the PBS newshour which covers more national cultural news than the big three networks which seem to focus on wars, floods, fires, airplane disasters and the lastest blurps from Trump. I also watch any of the local tv stations for local weather reports and forecasts.
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Nobody watches evening news anymore
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David Muir is my go to late night news source. I genuinely think he's a cool person. That is all.
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If you dont tell all the news left, right, and everything in between you are not in the news business try being a legit news station not a political hack this goes for all 3 major stations
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I believe CBS sold out to the criminals in the White House and I am still sane. So I reject the fantasies they call news. I call it propaganda. And that is the polite answer. Colbert got silenced. This is not our way. I am rejecting any and all things CBS. Even erased it out of my channel list.
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good him and his wife katy need gone from tv they are the worst humans ever . katy hates her dad whios a crossdresser said as much on live tv we have no room for this nonsense in todays society
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Without Nora O’Donell and John Dickerson, I’m done with CBS. Morning News, I can’t stand Gayle King, she is the reason why I don’t watch CBS at all. She is egocentric and her comments are dumb. CBS keeps her for the DEI quota.
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Dish network and Grey media are fighting over price. We still have abc because they are not owned by Grey. Cbs and nbc are and we haven't had them for a couple months. Don't know how many markets are messed up like that
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No one wants to watch fake censored News by the Zionists
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Stopped watching when they became left wing..and still don't watch them now that they're trying to be politically unbiased....no longer trust any media outlets that covered Biden's total decline and endorsed an incompetent like Kamala
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People still watch the networks? Only time I turn them on is to watch a game.
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abc is totally to the left. if anyone remembers back to the primaries when trump was first trying to run, every single day they'd start with a video of airline turbulence followed by a video of trump saying something unfiltered. then they'd bring out their political expert that would say it's the end of trump since he said that. then he ended up as the candidate and won the election
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Was ABC CBS and NBC the net works that said Biden was sharp as ever for four years.
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i think abc is famtastic teo many ads
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Way too much ads, 10 minutes of news in a half hour.
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They all have too many ads
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I like Tony Dokoupils newscast.
I think it is a big improvement from what they had before. It's hard to go up against David Muir, but I don't like the far left newsroom at ABC.
I just want to know what is going on in the world. I don't care what the reporters opinion is. News broadcast should be totally neutral!
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