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January 2, 2026
‘World News Tonight’ Grows Across the Board From the Previous Quarter
‘World News Tonight’ Is the #1 Program on All Broadcast and Cable for the Week
‘World News Tonight’ Is #1 in Total Viewers for 10th Season in a Row and in Both Key Adults Demos for the 7th Year Straight Season to Date
4th Quarter 2025
ABC News’ “World News Tonight with David Muir” was the most-watched newscast across broadcast and cable in the 4th Quarter 2025 in Total Viewers (7.862 million), Adults 25-54 (974,000) and Adults 18-49 (696,000), based on Most Current Big Data+Panel Ratings. In fact, “World News Tonight” won the 4th quarter across the board for the sixth year in a row — since 4Q20.“World News Tonight” led for the 24th straight quarter in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 — since 1Q20. Further, the ABC evening newscast has won in Total Viewers for the last 35 quarters — since 2Q17.
Week of Dec. 22, 2025
“World News Tonight with David Muir” stood as the No. 1 program in Total Viewers (7.537 million) on all of broadcast and cable (excluding sports) during the week of Dec. 22, 2025, based on Live+Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings from Nielsen Media Research.
NOTE: “World News Tonight” was retitled to “WNT-ABC” on Monday (12/22/25), coded as a special on Wednesday (12/24/25) and Friday (12/26/25), and preempted on Thursday (12/25/25). “CBS Evening News” and “NBC Nightly News” were coded as specials on Wednesday and Thursday. “NBC Nightly News” was retitled to “NBC Nitely News” on Tuesday and Friday. The retitled and specialed telecasts are excluded from the weekly and season averages. ABC’s (Tuesday) and NBC’s (Monday) weekly averages are based on one day, while CBS’ weekly averages are based on three days (Monday, Tuesday and Friday).
ABC’s “World News Tonight with David Muir” airs 6:30-7:00 p.m. ET on ABC. Chris Dinan is the executive producer of the broadcast.
EVENING NEWS (4th Quarter, 2025)
EVENING NEWS (Week of Dec. 22, 2025)
Source: Nielsen, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 National Live + Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings. Current Week (w/o 12/22/25), Previous Week (w/o 12/15/25) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 12/23/24). Season to date: Most Current Data Stream: 2025-2026 Season (9/22 – 12/28/25) and 2024-2025 Season (9/23 – 12/29/24). Live+7/Most Current: 4Q25: 9/22/25 – 12/28/25, 3Q25: 6/30 – 9/21/25 and 4Q24: 9/23/24 – 12/39/24, Beginning 12/26/22, averages are based on Big Data Plus Panel ratings.
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