NBC, ABC & CBS Evening News Ratings Show David Muir Back on Top After Shocking Upset
What To Know
- ABC World News Tonight with David Muir regained the top spot in both total viewers and the key Adults 25–54 demographic.
- NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas fell to second place in both categories after a brief upset.
- CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil remained a distant third.
David Muir might be breathing a sigh of relief. His ABC World News Tonight broadcast is back on top in the Adults 25–54 demo after an upset by NBC Nightly News, anchored by Tom Llamas.
For the week of August 10, ABC World News Tonight With David Muir led in both total viewers and A25–54 views, according to Nielsen national live-plus-same day ratings TVNewser reported yesterday. The ABC broadcast averaged 8.436 million total viewers, up 1 percent over the prior week and 20 percent year over year, and 1.162 million A25–54 viewers, up 12 percent over the prior week and 25 percent year over year.
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas came in second place in both viewership groups that week. It averaged 6.611 million total viewers, down 1 percent from the previous week, and 999,000 A25–54 viewers, down 6 percent. The NBC production, which edged out ABC World News Tonight in demo viewers the prior week, is the only broadcast TV news program to have lost viewers week-over-week in both categories, TVNewser notes, but it’s up 16 percent in total viewers and 29 percent in demo viewers over the same time last year.
Tom Llamas (Art Streiber/NBCUniversal)
And yet again, CBS Evening News With Tony Dokoupil lagged far behind its competitors, coming in a distant third with 3.785 million total viewers — down 3 percent over the week prior but up 1 percent over the same time last year — and 521,000 A25-54 viewers — up 1 percent over the week prior and level with the demo viewership the same time last year.
TVNewser did note that the NBC Nightly News weekly average is based on four days of shows (from Monday to Thursday the week of August 10), while weekly averages of ABC World News Tonight and CBS Evening News are based on three days (Monday to Wednesday of that week).
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K
To me, ABC news is the Readers Digest condensed version. Never very detailed and a bit repetitive, with about half news and half commercials.
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Exactly. DM throws out a teaser on an upcoming piece, goes to a commercial and comes back with the same item with few or no details.y
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They are masters of abbreviation and sharing the half hour with the ads equally. SMH
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No CBS ever ever ever. Bowing to the fascists in Washington earned them a block on my cable channels.
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I watch ABC. I would watch NBC more often but it is owned by Sinclair. No CBS because they fired Colbert and will capitulate to the pressure brought on by Trump and I can no longer trust them to present the facts and the truth. Guest
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So I guess you're in one of those markets where Sinclair owns the local NBC but not ABC? Whether I agree with you or not is irrelevant; I'm glad for you that you're not in a market where Sinclair owns both. Hope you can fnd an alternative access route to one that isn't Sinclair-controlled.
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I think they have Way to Many Commercials,every 5seconds of news leads to 5mins.of Commercials, this is Redicious. Gonna stop watching the maybe 10mins.total of news.
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CBS News averaging 1,000 viewers per state in the demo. Nice going, Bari.
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