{"id":218499,"date":"2026-07-27T23:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/for-7th-consecutive-week-the-1-program-on-all-television-is-abc-world-news-tonight-with-david-muir-beating-nbc-by-1-9-million-and-cbs-by-4-0-million-and-is-the-most-watched-newsc\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T23:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:35:28","slug":"for-7th-consecutive-week-the-1-program-on-all-television-is-abc-world-news-tonight-with-david-muir-beating-nbc-by-1-9-million-and-cbs-by-4-0-million-and-is-the-most-watched-newsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/for-7th-consecutive-week-the-1-program-on-all-television-is-abc-world-news-tonight-with-david-muir-beating-nbc-by-1-9-million-and-cbs-by-4-0-million-and-is-the-most-watched-newsc\/","title":{"rendered":"FOR 7TH CONSECUTIVE WEEK, THE #1 PROGRAM ON ALL TELEVISION IS \u2018ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR,\u2019 BEATING NBC BY 1.9 MILLION AND CBS BY 4.0 MILLION, AND IS THE MOST-WATCHED NEWSCAST IN TOTAL VIEWERS, &#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\">June 3, 2026<\/span><br \/><strong>\u2018World News Tonight\u2019 Grows Year to Year Across the Board and Improves in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 for the 13th Week in a Row<br \/><\/strong><strong>\u2018World News Tonight\u2019 Is Delivering Largest Season Viewership in 4 Years and Is #1 for 10th Year in a Row, With Biggest Margin Over NBC in 31 Years and CBS in at Least 34 Years<\/strong><br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>For the seventh consecutive week, \u201cWorld News Tonight with David Muir\u201d stood as the No. 1 program in Total Viewers <\/strong>(7.824 million) <strong>on all of broadcast and cable <\/strong>(excluding sports) during the week of May 25, 2026, based on Live+Same Day Big Data Plus Panel Program Ratings from Nielsen Media Research.<br \/>NOTE: On Monday (5\/25\/26), all three evening newscasts were coded as specials because of Memorial Day. On Tuesday (5\/26\/26) and Thursday (5\/28\/26), \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d was retitled to \u201cNBC Nitely News.\u201d On Friday (5\/29\/26), \u201cWorld News Tonight\u201d was retitled to \u201cWNT-ABC,\u201d and \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d was retitled to \u201cCBS Evening Nws.\u201d The specialed and retitled telecasts are excluded from the weekly and season averages. The weekly averages for \u201cWorld News Tonight\u201d and \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d are based on three days (Tuesday-Thursday), and the weekly average for \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d is based on two days (Wednesday and Friday).<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 May 25, 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 5\/25\/26), Previous Week (w\/o 5\/18\/26) and Year-Ago Week (w\/o 5\/26\/25). Season to date: Most Current Data Stream: 2025-2026 Season (9\/22\/25 \u2013 5\/31\/26) and 2024-2025 Season (9\/23\/24 \u2013 6\/1\/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. 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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