'World News Tonight with David Muir' Is Having Most-Watched Season in 9 Years

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ABC News’ “World News Tonight with David Muir” averaged 7.513 million Total Viewers, 1.546 million Adults 25-54 and 1.125 million Adults 18-49 for the week of June 27, 2016, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research.

“World News Tonight” was up on the same week last year in Total Viewers (+15,000 - 7.513 million vs. 7.498 million for w/o 7/29/15).

Season to date, “World News Tonight” is improving versus the same point last season in Total Viewers (+28,000 - 8.504 million vs. 8.476 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” is also narrowing its Total Viewer season margin with “NBC Nightly News” by double digits (-44% - 196,000 vs. 349,000) for the 2nd straight season, posting its closest overall viewer performance with the NBC program in 9 years – since the 2006-07 season.

For the week, “World News Tonight” beat the “CBS Evening News” by 1.046 million Total Viewers, by 8,000 Adults 25-54 and by 57,000 Adults 18-49.

NOTE: Anchor David Muir was off for the week. On Friday (7/1/16), “CBS Evening News” was retitled to “CBS Evening-Nws.”  The telecast is excluded from the averages.  CBS’ weekly averages are based on four days (Mon-Thurs).

ABC “World News Tonight with David Muir” airs 6:30–7:00 p.m. EDT 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 6/27/16, 6/20/16 and 6/29/15.  Most Current: 2015-2016 Season (9/21/15 – 7/3/16) and 2014-2015 Season (9/22/14 – 7/5/15).   Averages based on regular telecasts.

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