"World News Tonight" is Delivering Closest Overall Viewer Performance with NBC in 7 Years Season to Date

ABC News’  “World News Tonight with David Muir” averaged 7.846 million Total Viewers, 1.737 million Adults 25-54 and 1.134 million Adults 18-49 for the week of October 19, 2015, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research.

Season to date, “World News Tonight” is narrowing its Total Viewer season margin with “NBC Nightly News” nearly in half (-49% - 215,000 vs. 420,000), posting its closest overall viewer performance with the NBC program in 7 years – since the 2008-09 season.

“World News Tonight” cut its Total Viewer margin with “NBC Nightly News” from the same week last year by double digits (-39% - 276,000 vs. 454,000 on w/o 10/20/14).  In fact, “World News Tonight” has narrowed its year-to-year Total Viewer margin with the NBC program in all 5 weeks of the season.

“World News Tonight” improved week-to-week (w/o 10/12/15) in Total Viewers (7.846 million vs. 7.808 million) and Adults 25-54 (1.737 million vs. 1.731 million).

For the week, “World News Tonight” beat the “CBS Evening News” by 1.031 million Total Viewers, by 259,000 Adults 25-54 and by 165,000 Adults 18-49.

NOTE:  “CBS Evening News” was retitled to “CBS Evening Nws” on Thursday (10/22/15) for NFL and the telecast was excluded from the averages.  CBS’ weekly averages are based on 4 days (Mon-Wed and Fri).

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 10/19/15, 10/12/15 and 10/20/14.  Most Current: 2015-2016 Season (9/21 – 10/25/15) and 2014-2015 Season (9/22 – 10/26/14).  Averages based on regular telecasts.