Heading into the lengthy Labor Day vacation weekend, NBC Nightly Information with Tom Llamas eked out a win over ABC World Information Tonight with David Muir within the Adults 25-54 demo for the week of August 31.
A thousand further demo viewers have been all it took for Nightly Information to slip previous WNT throughout the just-concluded week. Nonetheless, ABC Information’ morning present completed because the most-watched broadcast in complete viewers for the week.
In the meantime, CBS Night Information with Tony Dokoupil was the one newscast with progress in each measured classes.
Observe: The weekly averages of ABC Information, CBS Information, and NBC Information are primarily based on completely different durations: ABC Information’ common is predicated on three days (Monday – Wednesday), whereas CBS Information’ was primarily based on 4 days (Monday – Thursday), and NBC Information’ averages are primarily based on two days (Monday – Tuesday). On Thursday (09/03/26) and Friday (09/04/26), WNT was retitled to WNT-ABC. Friday’s version of CBS Night Information was retitled to CBS Night Nws, and Wednesday (09/02/2026), Thursday, and Friday’s version of Nightly Information was retitled to NBC Nitely Information, respectively. These broadcasts have been excluded from the weekly and season averages.
In keeping with nationwide dwell+same-day massive knowledge plus program scores from Nielsen, ABC World Information Tonight averaged 8.508 million complete viewers and 1.102 million Adults 25-54 demo viewers for the week of August 31. The night newscast was down -3% amongst complete viewers and -10% amongst A25-54 viewers in comparison with the earlier week. its efficiency throughout the identical week in 2025* (the week starting September 1), WNT was up +18% in complete viewers and +23% within the demo.
NBC Nightly Information completed within the No. 2 place in complete viewers however received the demo, averaging 6.988 million and 1.103 million viewers, respectively. In contrast with the earlier week, Nightly Information slid -1% in complete viewers however gained +3% within the demo. When evaluating its efficiency to the identical week a yr in the past, Nightly Information was up by +24% in complete viewers and +35% within the demo.
CBS Night Information closed out the week of Aug. 31 with 4.037 million complete viewers and 544,000 demo viewers. CBS Information’ newscast grew by +3% in complete viewers and +2% within the demo in comparison with the earlier week—the one newscast with beneficial properties in each measured classes. Its year-ago week numbers confirmed CBS Night Information up +9% in complete viewers and +6% within the demo.
*Please notice that year-over-year comparisons are primarily based on Nielsen Huge Information+Panel (2026) vs. Panel (2025) measurements.
August 31, 2026 (Nielsen Huge Information + Panel):
| ABC | NBC | CBS | |
| • Whole Viewers: | 8,508,000 | 6,988,000 | 4,037,000 |
| • A25-54: | 1,102,000 | 1,103,000 | 544,000 |
