‘World News Tonight With David Muir’ Is the #1 Program on U.S. Television Across All of Broadcast and Cable As 2022–23 Season Begins — And #1 Newscast in Total Viewers, Adults 25–54 and Adults 18–49
**Ratings Report for ABC News’ “World News Tonight with David Muir”
For the Week of Sept. 19, 2022
‘World News Tonight With David Muir’ Is the #1 Program on U.S. Television Across All of Broadcast and Cable As 2022–23 Season Begins — And #1 Newscast in Total Viewers, Adults 25–54 and Adults 18–49
On Thursday, ‘World News Tonight’ Posts Its Most-Watched Telecast in 4 Months With More Than 8 Million Viewers
‘World News Tonight’ Is No. 1 Program During Premiere Week in Total Viewers on Television for 2nd Time in Last 3 Years
‘World News Tonight’ Leads NBC by 1.2 Million and CBS by 3.1 Million Total Viewers
‘World News Tonight’ Improves Week to Week in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54, Sees Its Most-Watched Week in 3 Months
“World News Tonight with David Muir” opened the 2022-2023 season as America’s No. 1 evening newscast in all of broadcast and cable in Total Viewers (7.676 million), Adults 25-54 (1.289 million) and Adults 18-49 (855,000) for the 3rd year in a row during the week of Sept. 19, 2022, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. Further, “World News Tonight” stood as the most-watched evening newscast during premiere week for the 7th consecutive season — since premiere week of the 2016-2017 season.
In addition, “World News Tonight” was the No. 1 program during premiere week in Total Viewers (7.676 million) on all of broadcast and cable television (excluding sports) for the 2nd time in the last 3 years.
“World News Tonight” led “NBC Nightly News” (6.456 million, 1.113 million and 755,000, respectively) by 1.220 million Total Viewers, by 176,000 Adults 25-54 and by 100,000 Adults 18-49.
“World News Tonight” has won the last 199 of 200 weeks in Total Viewers and 128 of the last 130 in Adults 25-54.
“World News Tonight” improved on the previous week in Total Viewers (+5%/+371,000 – 7.676 million vs. 7.305 million) and Adults 25-54 (+5%/+67,000 – 1.289 million vs. 1.222 million), seeing its most-watched week in 3 months — since w/o 6/13/22.
On Thursday (9/22/22), “World News Tonight” turned in its most-watched telecast (8.147 million) in 4 months — since 5/9/22.
For the week, “World News Tonight” (7.676 million, 1.289 million and 855,000, respectively) defeated “CBS Evening News” (4.574 million, 781,000 and 510,000, respectively) by 3.102 Total Viewers, by 508,000 Adults 25-54 and by 345,000 Adults 18-49.
NOTE: On Monday (9/19/22), “World News Tonight” was retitled to “WNT-ABC” due to “Monday Night Football.” The retitled telecast is excluded from the weekly averages. ABC’s averages are based on four days (Tuesday-Friday).
ABC’s “World News Tonight with David Muir” airs 6:30-7:00 p.m. EDT on ABC. Almin Karamehmedovic is the senior executive producer of the broadcast.
EVENING NEWS (Week of Sept. 19, 2022):
Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD Current Week (w/o 9/19/22), Previous Week (w/o 9/12/22) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 9/20/21). 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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