{"id":208567,"date":"2026-04-22T16:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/with-8-7-million-viewers-abc-world-news-tonight-with-david-muir-is-americas-1-newscast-in-total-viewers-delivering-its-ninth-consecutive-olympic-week-win-over-nbc-detpr\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:27:32","slug":"with-8-7-million-viewers-abc-world-news-tonight-with-david-muir-is-americas-1-newscast-in-total-viewers-delivering-its-ninth-consecutive-olympic-week-win-over-nbc-detpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/with-8-7-million-viewers-abc-world-news-tonight-with-david-muir-is-americas-1-newscast-in-total-viewers-delivering-its-ninth-consecutive-olympic-week-win-over-nbc-detpr\/","title":{"rendered":"WITH 8.7 MILLION VIEWERS, \u2018ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR\u2019 IS AMERICA\u2019S #1 NEWSCAST IN TOTAL VIEWERS, DELIVERING ITS NINTH CONSECUTIVE OLYMPIC WEEK WIN OVER NBC – detpress.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\tPress release\t\t\t – Ratings<\/span>\t\t
February 18, 2026<\/span>
\u2018World News Tonight\u2019 Beats NBC by 860,000 Post-Super Bowl LX Week and First Week of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics and More Than Doubles Its Lead Over CBS by <\/strong>Nearly 4.5 Million<\/strong>
 
\u201cWorld News Tonight with David Muir\u201d ranked as the No. 1 newscast in all of broadcast and cable in Total Viewers <\/strong>(8.657 million) during the week of Feb. 9, 2026, based on Live+Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings from Nielsen Media Research. \u201cWorld News Tonight\u201d beat \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d <\/strong>(7.797 million) by 860,000 post-Super Bowl LX Week and during the first week of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.<\/strong>
NOTE: On Friday (2\/13\/26), \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d was retitled to \u201cCBS Evening Nws.\u201d The retitled telecasts are excluded from the weekly and season averages. \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d weekly averages are based on four days (Monday-Thursday).
ABC\u2019s \u201cWorld News Tonight with David Muir\u201d airs 6:30-7:00 p.m. ET on ABC. Chris Dinan is the executive producer of the broadcast.
EVENING NEWS (Week of Feb. 9, 2026)<\/strong>
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 2\/9\/26), Previous Week (w\/o 2\/2\/26) and Year-Ago Week (w\/o 2\/3\/25). Season to date: Most Current Data Stream: 2025-2026 Season (9\/22\/25 \u2013 2\/15\/26) and 2024-2025 Season (9\/23\/24 \u2013 2\/16\/25). Week 1 of 2024 Summer Olympics (w\/o 7\/29\/24) and Week 1 of 2022 Winter Olympics (w\/o 2\/7\/22).\u00a0 Beginning 12\/26\/22, averages are based on Big Data Plus Panel ratings.\u00a0 Season averages based on Big Data Plus Panel ratings start with the 2023-2024 season.\u00a0 Beginning 9\/29\/25, \u201cWorld News Tonight\u201d averages include airings on ABCNL. Nielsen ratings for ABC, NBC and CBS include additional airings in select markets.\u00a0 Beginning 8\/31\/20, national ratings also include Out of Home (OOH) viewing.
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Press Sites Press release – Ratings February 18, 2026\u2018World News Tonight\u2019 Beats NBC by 860,000 Post-Super Bowl LX Week and First Week of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics and More Than Doubles Its Lead Over CBS by Nearly 4.5 Million \u201cWorld News Tonight with David Muir\u201d ranked as the No. 1 newscast in all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-208567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}