"World News Tonight with David Muir" is Delivering the Largest Overall Viewer Audience in 9 Years

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ABC News’ “World News Tonight with David Muir” averaged 8.665 million Total Viewers, 1.961 million Adults 25-54 and 1.393 million Adults 18-49 for the week of March 7, 2016, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. 

Season to date, “World News Tonight” is improving versus the same point last season in Total Viewers (+9,000 - 8.860 million vs. 8.851 million).  Growing for the 4th straight year, “World News Tonight” is delivering its largest overall viewer audience in 9 years – since the 2006-07 season.

“World News Tonight” ranked as the No. 1 newscast on Friday (3/11/16), leading “NBC Nightly News” in all key target demos: Total Viewers (+276,000 – 7.889 million vs. 7.613 million), Adults 25-54 (+126,000 – 1.830 million vs. 1.704 million) and Adults 18-49 (+82,000 – 1.294 million vs. 1.212 million).  Further, “World News Tonight” has been the No. 1 evening newscast on Friday in Total Viewers for the last 7 weeks.  “World News Tonight” was also No. 1 in Total Viewers on Wednesday (3/9/16), leading “NBC Nightly News” by 8,000 (8.882 million vs. 8.874 million).

“World News Tonight” is narrowing its Total Viewer season margin with “NBC Nightly News” by more than half (-55% - 238,000 vs. 533,000), posting its closest overall viewer performance with the NBC program in 8 years – since the 2007-08 season.

“World News Tonight” improved on the year-ago week (8.120 million and 1.360 million, respectively, w/o 3/9/16) in Total Viewers (+7%) and Adults 18-49 (+2%).

For the week, “World News Tonight” outpaced the “CBS Evening News” by 1.238 million Total Viewers, by 191,000 Adults 25-54 and by 182,000 Adults 18-49.

ABC “World News Tonight with David Muir” airs 6:30–7:00 p.m. EST on the ABC Television Network.  Almin Karamehmedovic is the executive producer of the broadcast.  

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD weeks of 3/7/16, 2/29/16 and 3/9/15.  Most Current: 2015-2016 Season (9/21/15 – 3/14/16) and 2014-2015 Season (9/22/14 – 3/15/15).   Averages based on regular telecasts. 

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