{"id":213157,"date":"2026-06-09T02:49:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/the-1-program-on-all-of-broadcast-and-cable-tv-with-8-6-million-viewers-is-abc-world-news-tonight-with-david-muir-winning-in-total-viewers-25-54-and-18-49-detpress-com\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T02:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:49:54","slug":"the-1-program-on-all-of-broadcast-and-cable-tv-with-8-6-million-viewers-is-abc-world-news-tonight-with-david-muir-winning-in-total-viewers-25-54-and-18-49-detpress-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/the-1-program-on-all-of-broadcast-and-cable-tv-with-8-6-million-viewers-is-abc-world-news-tonight-with-david-muir-winning-in-total-viewers-25-54-and-18-49-detpress-com\/","title":{"rendered":"THE #1 PROGRAM ON ALL OF BROADCAST AND CABLE TV WITH 8.6 MILLION VIEWERS IS \u2018ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR\u2019 \u2014 WINNING IN TOTAL VIEWERS, 25-54 AND 18-49 &#8211; detpress.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \t\t\t\tPress Sites\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\tPress release\t\t\t &#8211; <span class=\"post-type-title\">Ratings<\/span>\t\t<br \/><span class=\"posted-on\">April 8, 2026<\/span><br \/><strong>Earning Its Fifth Consecutive News &amp; Documentary Emmy\u00ae Award Nomination for Outstanding Live News Program, \u2018World News Tonight\u2019 Is the #1 <\/strong><strong>Newscast Across the Board, <\/strong><strong>Beating NBC by 1.9 Million Viewers and More Than Doubling CBS by 4.5 Million Viewers<br \/><\/strong><strong>Season to Date, \u2018World News Tonight\u2019 Is Delivering Its Largest Season Viewership in 3 Years<br \/><\/strong><strong>\u2018World News Tonight\u2019 Is #1 in Total Viewers for the 10th Year Straight and in Adults 25-54 for the 7th Season in a Row, Delivering the Largest Lead Over NBC in 31 Years and CBS in 34 Years<\/strong><br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Earning a News &#038; Documentary Emmy\u00ae Award nomination for Outstanding Live News Program for the fifth year in a row, \u201c<strong>World News Tonight with David Muir<\/strong>\u201d <strong>stood as the No. 1 program in Total Viewers<\/strong> (8.598 million) <strong>on all of broadcast and cable <\/strong>(excluding sports) during the week of March 30, 2026, based on Live+Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings from Nielsen Media Research.<br \/>NOTE: On Wednesday (4\/1\/26), \u201cWorld News Tonight\u201d was preempted. On Thursday (4\/2\/26) and Friday (4\/3\/26), \u201cWorld News Tonight\u201d was retitled to \u201cWNT-ABC.\u201d On Friday, \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d was retitled to \u201cCBS Evening Nws,\u201d and \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d was retitled to \u201cNBC Nitely News.\u201d The retitled telecasts are excluded from the weekly and season averages. \u201cWorld News Tonight\u201d\u2019s weekly average is based on two days (Monday-Tuesday), and \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d\u2019s and \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d\u2019s weekly averages are based on four days (Monday-Thursday).<br \/>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.<br \/><strong>EVENING NEWS (Week of March 30, 2026)<\/strong><br \/>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\/30\/26), Previous Week (w\/o 3\/23\/26) and Year-Ago Week (w\/o 3\/31\/25). Season to date: Most Current Data Stream: 2025-2026 Season (9\/22\/25 \u2013 4\/5\/26) and 2024-2025 Season (9\/23\/24 \u2013 4\/6\/25). 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. 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.<br \/>*COPYRIGHT \u00a92026 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All photography is copyrighted material and is for editorial use only. Images are not to be archived, altered, duplicated, resold, retransmitted or used for any other purposes without written permission of ABC News. 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