No Decline in Total Viewers

The primary week of December noticed all three night broadcasts not file any declines in whole viewers. With the Thanksgiving vacation weekend over, CBS Night Information, which introduced Tony Dokoupil as its newest anchor starting in January, was the one night program to develop in each whole viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo.In the meantime, NBC Nightly Information was the one newscast to say no within the coveted Adults 25-54 demo.Notice: The weekly averages of ABC World Information are primarily based on 4 days (Monday-Thursday). Friday’s (12/05/25) broadcast was retitled to WNT-ABC because of school soccer. This broadcast is excluded from the weekly and season averages.In response to nationwide dwell+same-day large information plus program scores from Nielsen, ABC World Information Tonight with David Muir averaged 8.278 million whole viewers and 1.061 million Adults 25-54 demo viewers for the week of December 1. The night newscast was flat in whole viewers and grew by +3% within the A25-54 demo in comparison with the earlier week. its efficiency for a similar week in 2024 (the week starting December 2), as beforehand measured by Nielsen panel information, WNT was up by +8% in whole viewers and +5% within the demo.NBC Nightly Information with Tom Llamas was the No. 2 broadcast in whole viewers and the demo, averaging 6.621 million and 900,000 viewers, respectively. The published was up +6% in whole viewers however dropped by -2% within the A25-54 demo. When evaluating its efficiency to the identical week a 12 months in the past, as beforehand measured by Nielsen panel information, Nightly Information was up +6% in whole viewers however fell by -4% within the demo.CBS Night Information had 4.361 million whole viewers and 553,000 viewers within the demo for the week of December 1. The published was up +2% in whole viewers and +1% within the demo in comparison with the earlier week—the one newscast with optimistic features in each measured classes. Its year-ago week numbers, as beforehand measured by Nielsen panel information, confirmed the newscast remained flat in whole viewers and declined by -1% within the demo.   ABC NBC CBS • Complete Viewers: 8,278,000 6,621,000   4,361,000 • A25-54: 1,061,000 900,000   553,000 Supply: Nielsen, NTI Complete Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Nationwide Dwell + Similar Day Huge Information Plus Panel Program Rankings. Present Week (w/o 12/1/25), Earlier Week (w/o 11/24/25) and Yr-In the past Week (w/o 12/2/24). Season so far: Most Present Information Stream: 2025-2026 Season (9/22 – 12/7/25) and 2024-2025 Season (9/23 – 12/8/24).*Please notice that year-over-year comparisons are primarily based on Nielsen Huge Information+Panel (2025) vs. Panel (2024) measurements.