Ratings: "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" Slashes Demo Gap with NBC by 40%, Year-to-Year
Season-to-Date, "ABC World News" Narrows Total Viewing and Demo Gaps with "NBC Nightly News" to Smallest Margins in 3 Years
ABC Outperforms "CBS Evening News" by 1.35 Million Viewers and by 211,000 Adults 25-54
For the week of April 16, 2012, "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" averaged 7.12 million Total Viewers and a 1.6 rating/6 share/1.88 million in Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research.
"World News" slashed its year-ago gap with "NBC Nightly News" among Adults 25-54 by -40% (316,000 vs. 525,000). In fact, "World News" has decreased its year-to-year news demo gap with the NBC program by double-digits for the 7th week in a row and in 8 of the last 9 weeks.
Season-to-date, "World News" has narrowed the gaps with "NBC Nightly News" among both Total Viewers (-1%) and Adults 25-54 (-21%), posting its smallest Total Viewer (1.09 million) and news demo margins (368,000) with the NBC program in 3 years - since the 2008-09 season.
"World News" outperformed "CBS Evening News" by 1.35 million Total Viewers and by 211,000 Adults 25-54, drawing its largest Total Viewer lead over the CBS program in 5 weeks - since w/o 3/12/12.
"ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" airs at 6:30 p.m., ET on the ABC Television Network. Michael Corn is the executive producer of the broadcast. Follow Diane Sawyer and the "World News" team online: @DianeSawyer; @ABCWorldNews; facebook.com/WorldNews.
EVENING NEWS (Week of April 16, 2012)
Total Viewers | Adults 25-54 | Households | |
ABC | 7,118,000 | 1.6/6; 1,881,000 | 4.9/10 |
NBC | 8,351,000 | 1.8/7; 2,197,000 | 5.6/12 |
CBS | 5,771,000 | 1.4/6; 1,670,000 | 4.0/ 8 |
Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 Live + SD weeks of 4/16/12, 4/9/12 & 4/18/11. Most Current - 2011-2012 Season (9/19/11 - 4/22/12) and 2010-2011 Season (9/20/11 - 4/24/11).