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April 29, 2025
‘World News Tonight’ Is the Only Evening Newscast To Grow Year to Year in Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 and Improves Week to Week in All Key Demos
‘World News Tonight’ Is #1 in Total Viewers for the 9th Year Straight, Delivering Biggest Season Lead Over NBC in 30 Years and CBS in 4 Years, and #1 in Both Adult Demos for 6th Year in a Row Outpacing NBC and CBS by Double Digits
“World News Tonight with David Muir” stood as America’s most-watched weekday program during the week of coverage on the death of Pope Francis in Total Viewers (7.432 million) on all of broadcast and cable and ranked as the No. 1 newscast across the board in Total Viewers (7.432 million), Adults 25-54 (1.047 million) and Adults 18-49 (691,000) during the week of April 21, 2025, based on Live+Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research.
NOTE: On Thursday (4/24/25) and Friday (4/25/25), “World News Tonight” was retitled to “WNT-ABC.” The retitled telecasts are excluded from the weekly and season averages. ABC’s weekly averages are based on four days (Monday-Wednesday).
ABC’s “World News Tonight with David Muir” airs 6:30-7:00 p.m. EDT on ABC. Chris Dinan is the executive producer of the broadcast.
EVENING NEWS (Week of April 21, 2025)
Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD Current Week (w/o 4/21/25), Previous Week (w/o 4/14/25) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 4/22/24). Most Current Data Stream: 2024-2025 Season (9/23/24 – 4/27/25) and 2023-2024 Season (9/25/23 – 4/28/24). Nielsen ratings for ABC, NBC and CBS include additional airings in select markets. Beginning 8/31/20, national ratings also include Out of Home (OOH) viewing. Averages based on regular telecasts.
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DURING WEEK OF COVERAGE ON POPE FRANCIS, THE #1 PROGRAM ON ALL OF BROADCAST AND CABLE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY IS ‘WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR’ — OUTDELIVERING NBC BY 1.7 MILLION VIEWERS, THE LA – dgepress.com
