ABC News has long been on top of the nightly newscast ratings, but World News Tonight set a recent high last week.
During the week of November 17th, the ABC News nightly newscast averaged just under 8 million viewers, finishing the week with an average audience of 7,939,000 viewers.
That figure marks the highest average audience for the entire week since the week of March 17th, when it averaged 7,587,000 viewers.
The show was also the top-rated newscast in the Adults 25-54 demographic, securing 995,000 viewers on average from that sector. That was the highest performance for the program since the week of July 7th.
Currently, the ABC News program led by David Muir is ranking as the number one newscast in total viewers for the 10th consecutive year.
Elsewhere, NBC Nightly News averaged 6.4 million viewers for the week. CBS Evening News finished with an average audience of 4.1 million viewers.
In the key demographic, NBC News averaged 864,000 for the week. CBS Evening News saw 529,000 viewers from that category.
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