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Press release – Ratings
April 29, 2026
‘World News Tonight’ Is America’s #1 Newscast in Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 for the Week
‘World News Tonight’ Is the Only Evening Newscast To Grow Week to Week and Year to Year Across the Board
With Largest Viewership in 3 Years, ‘World News Tonight’ Is Winning the Season for the 10th Consecutive Year and by the Largest Margin Over NBC in 31 Years and CBS in at Least 34 Years
“World News Tonight with David Muir” stood as the No. 1 program in Total Viewers (8.537 million) on all of broadcast and cable for the second straight week during the week of April 20, 2026, based on Live+Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings from Nielsen Media Research.
NOTE: On Monday (4/20/26) and Tuesday (4/21/26), “NBC Nightly News” was retitled to “NBC Nitely News.” On Thursday (4/23/26) and Friday (4/24/26), “World News Tonight” was retitled to “WNT-ABC.” On Friday, “CBS Evening News” was retitled to “CBS Evening News.” The retitled telecasts are excluded from the weekly and season averages. “World News Tonight”’s (Monday-Wednesday) and “NBC Nightly News”’s (Wednesday-Friday) weekly averages are based on three days, while “CBS Evening News” weekly averages are based on four days (Monday-Thursday).
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 April 20, 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 4/20/26), Previous Week (w/o 4/13/26) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 4/21/25). Season to date: Most Current Data Stream: 2025-2026 Season (9/22/25 – 4/26/26) and 2024-2025 Season (9/23/24 – 4/27/25). 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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