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May 13, 2025
‘World News Tonight’ Grows Year to Year and Week to Week in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49
‘World News Tonight’ Is the Most-Watched Newscast for the 9th Year in a Row and #1 in Both Key Adult Demos for 6th Year Straight — Growing Leads Over NBC and CBS by Double Digits
Led by anchor and managing editor David Muir from the Vatican, “World News Tonight with David Muir” stood as America’s most-watched weekday program in Total Viewers (7.268 million) on all of broadcast and cable and ranked as the No. 1 newscast across the board in Total Viewers (7.268 million), Adults 25-54 (971,000) and Adults 18-49 (698,000) during the week of May 5, 2025, based on Live+Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research.
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 May 5, 2025)
Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD Current Week (w/o 5/5/25), Previous Week (w/o 4/28/25) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 5/6/24). Most Current Data Stream: 2024-2025 Season (9/23/24 – 5/11/25) and 2023-2024 Season (9/25/23 – 5/12/24). 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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