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June 17, 2025
World News Tonight’ Is #1 Newscast Across the Board in Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49
‘World News Tonight’ Grows Week to Week Across the Board
‘World News Tonight’ Is the #1 Newscast for the 9th Season in a Row Leading NBC by Largest Viewership in 30 Years and CBS in 4 Years – and Is #1 in Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 for 6th Season Straight Increasing Margins by Double Digits vs. NBC and CBS
“World News Tonight with David Muir” stood as the No. 1 program of the week in Total Viewers (7.248 million) on all of broadcast and cable (excluding sports) during the week of June 9, 2025, based on Live+Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. “World News Tonight” has been the No. 1 most-watched program on television for the 5th consecutive week (with and without sports).
NOTE: On Wednesday (6/11/25) and Friday (6/13/25), “World News Tonight” was retitled to “WNT-ABC” due to ABC’s coverage of Game 3 and Game 4, respectively, of the NBA Finals. In addition, on Friday, “NBC Nightly News” was coded as a breakout and was retitled to “NBC Nitely News” due to coverage of U.S. Open Golf. The retitled and breakout telecasts are excluded from the weekly and season averages. ABC’s weekly averages are based on three days (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday), while NBC’s weekly averages are based on four days (Monday-Thursday).
ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir” airs 6:30-7:00 p.m. EDT on ABC. Chris Dinan is the executive producer of the broadcast.
EVENING NEWS (Week of June 9, 2025)
Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD Current Week (w/o 6/2/25), Previous Week (w/o 5/26/25) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 6/3/24). Most Current Data Stream: 2024-2025 Season (9/23/24 – 6/8/25) and 2023-2024 Season (9/25/23 – 6/9/24). 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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