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March 25, 2026
‘ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT’ LEADS NBC BY 2 MILLION VIEWERS EVERY NIGHT OF THE WEEK AND BEATS CBS BY 4.7 MILLION
‘World News Tonight’ Grows Week to Week and Year to Year in Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49
‘World News Tonight’ Is Scoring Largest Season Viewership in 3 Years
With Biggest Margin Over NBC in 31 Years and CBS in 34 Years, ‘World News Tonight’ Is #1 in Total Viewers for the 10th Consecutive Year and in Adults 25-54 for the 7th Season in a Row
“World News Tonight with David Muir” stood as the No. 1 program in Total Viewers (8.821 million) on all of broadcast and cable (excluding sports) during the week of March 16, 2026, based on Live+Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings from Nielsen Media Research.
NOTE: On Thursday (3/19/26) and Friday (3/20/26), “CBS Evening News” was retitled to “CBS Evening Nws.” The retitled telecast is excluded from the weekly and season averages. “CBS Evening News”’s weekly averages are based on three days (Monday-Wednesday).
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 (Week of March 16, 2026)
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 3/16/26), Previous Week (w/o 3/9/26) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 3/17/25). Season to date: Most Current Data Stream: 2025-2026 Season (9/22/25 – 3/22/26) and 2024-2025 Season (9/23/24 – 3/23/25). Beginning 12/26/22, averages are based on Big Data Plus Panel ratings. Season averages based on Big Data Plus Panel ratings start with the 2023-2024 season. Beginning 9/29/25, “World News Tonight” averages include airings on ABCNL. 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.
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