"World News Tonight with David Muir" is Averaging Largest Overall Viewer Audience in 8 Years Season to Date

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ABC News’  “World News Tonight with David Muir” averaged 8.822 million Total Viewers, 2.041 million Adults 25-54 and 1.364 million Adults 18-49 for the week of November 9, 2015, 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 (8.304 million vs. 8.271 million).  In fact, growing for the 5th straight year, “World News Tonight” is delivering its largest overall viewer audience in 8 years – since the 2007-08 season.

In addition, “World News Tonight” is narrowing its Total Viewer season margin with “NBC Nightly News” by more than half (-55% - 225,000 vs. 501,000), posting its closest overall viewer performance with the NBC program in 7 years – since the 2008-09 season.  

Building on the prior week (w/o 11/2/15) in both Total Viewers (8.822 million vs. 8.786 million) and Adults 25-54 (2.041 million vs. 2.005 million) to hit new season highs, “World News Tonight” turned in its strongest performance in overall viewers since March and best in the key adult news demo since April – since weeks of 3/2/15 and 4/20/15, respectively.

“World News Tonight” cut its Total Viewer gap with “NBC Nightly News” from the year-ago week by double-digits (-27% - 477,000 vs. 649,000 on w/o 11/10/14). “World News Tonight” has narrowed its year-to-year Total Viewer margin with the NBC program in all 8 weeks of the season.

For the week, “World News Tonight” beat the “CBS Evening News” by 1.040 million Total Viewers, by 231,000 Adults 25-54 and by 186,000 Adults 18-49.

ABC “World News Tonight with David Muir” airs at 6:30 p.m., ET on the ABC Television Network.  Almin Karamehmedovic is the executive producer of the broadcast. Follow David Muir and the “World News Tonight” team online: @DavidMuir; @WNTonight; facebook.com/DavidMuirABC; facebook.com/WorldNewsTonight. 

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD weeks of 11/9/15, 11/2/15 and 11/10/14.  Most Current: 2015-2016 Season (9/21 – 11/15/15) and 2014-2015 Season (9/22 – 11/16/14).  Averages based on regular telecasts.