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CBS, NBC & ABC Evening News Ratings Show Big Swings
The evening news ratings are in for the first full week of May, and it was a week of declines across the board for CBS, NBC, and ABC.
According to AdWeek, citing national live+same-day big data plus program ratings from Nielsen, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir held onto the top spot in both total viewers and the coveted Adults 25-54 demographic for the week beginning May 4.
The show averaged 8.183 million total viewers and 976,000 demo viewers. This was down 1 percent in total viewers and down 3 percent in the key demo compared to the previous week. However, numbers were up year over year, with a 13 percent increase in total viewers and a 1 percent rise in the demo compared to the same period in 2025.
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Ratings, however, have been poor from the get-go, and new data from media analytics firm Nielsen paints a bleak picture. Fresh numbers show that the show averaged just 3.85 million viewers last week, well below the industry-recognized benchmark of four million.
The data obtained by Status also shows that the program is faltering among a key demographic. Among the coveted 25-54 age group, it averaged just 539,000, below the psychological floor of 600,000.
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Week of May 4 Evening News Ratings: Broadcasts Decline
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The three evening newscasts experienced viewership declines in both total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo during the first full week of May.
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir continued to be the evening news leader in both categories. However, for the second week in a row, over 70,000 demo viewers separated WNT and NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas.
Note: The weekly average of ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, and CBS Evening News is based on four days. Tuesday’s (05/05/2026) CBS News’ broadcast was retitled to CBS Evening Nws. Wednesday’s (05/06/2026) NBC News broadcast was retitled NBC Nitely Nws, and Friday’s (05/08/2026) ABC News’ broadcast was retitled WNT-ABC. These broadcasts are excluded from the weekly and season averages.
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