ABC World Information Tonight with David Muir remained America’s most-watched newscast in whole viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo; nevertheless, it was the one newscast that was down in each classes for the week of April 13.
Throughout every week that noticed much less escalation within the Center East than in prior weeks, not one of the night broadcasts recorded any progress in whole viewers. Nonetheless, NBC Nightly Information with Tom Llamas and CBS Night Information with Tony Dokoupil completed with positive factors within the A25-54 demo.
In the meantime, WNT’s demo lead over Nightly Information fell to beneath 100,000 viewers through the just-concluded week, with 67,000 demo viewers separating the 2 broadcasts.
Word: The weekly averages of NBC Nightly Information are based mostly on 4 days (Monday-Thursday). Friday’s (04/17/26) broadcast was retitled to NBC Nitely Information. This broadcast is excluded from the weekly and season averages.
In accordance with nationwide reside+same-day huge information plus program rankings from Nielsen, ABC World Information Tonight averaged 8.175 million whole viewers and 1.01 million Adults 25-54 demo viewers for the week of April 13. The night newscast declined by -3% amongst whole viewers and -5% amongst A25-54 viewers in comparison with the earlier week. Taking a look at its efficiency throughout the identical week in 2025* (the week starting April 14), WNT was up +14% in whole viewers and +5% within the demo.
NBC Nightly Information completed in second place in whole viewers and the demo, averaging 6.441 million and 943,000 viewers, respectively. In comparison with the earlier week, Nightly Information was flat in whole viewers and up +4% within the demo. It shrank WNT’s lead within the demo to a distinction of simply 67,000 viewers. When evaluating its efficiency to the identical week a yr in the past, Nightly Information was up by +9% in whole viewers and +16% within the demo.
As soon as once more, CBS Night Information completed the week of April 13 beneath the 4 million whole viewers mark, and the five hundred,000 viewers mark within the demo, with 3.804 million and 482,000 viewers, respectively. CBS Information’ newscast was flat in whole viewers however registered a +1% achieve within the demo in comparison with the earlier week. Its year-ago week numbers confirmed the newscast rising by +2% amongst whole viewers however dropping by -11% within the demo.
*Please word that year-over-year comparisons are based mostly on Nielsen Huge Knowledge+Panel (2026) vs. Panel (2025) measurements.
April,13 2026 (Nielsen Huge Knowledge + Panel):
| ABC | NBC | CBS | |
| • Complete Viewers: | 8,175,000 | 6,441,000 | 3,804,000 |
| • A25-54: | 1,010,000 | 943,000 | 482,000 |
