All three night reveals suffered week-to-week rankings drops in complete viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo for the week of March 9. These declines come regardless of information that the American financial system continues to be being affected by unrest within the Center East.
Moreover, the swap to Daylight Saving Time might have affected viewership patterns, because the solar units later.
ABC World Information Tonight with David Muir remained the most-watched newscast within the nation in each measured classes. In the meantime, CBS Night Information with Tony Dokoupil fell beneath 4 million complete viewers for the week.
The earlier rendition of CBS Information’ night broadcast, which John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois co-hosted, discovered itself in comparable territory, which can have led to the format and anchor modifications as soon as Bari Weiss took over the community.
Regardless of a number of modifications over the previous couple of months, CBS Night Information stays in third place, trailing its rivals within the timeslot. This week’s numbers present the night telecast off by 4.633 million complete viewers from WNT. The Muir-led newscast now has its largest complete viewer season lead over CBS Night Information in a minimum of 34 years.
Word: The weekly averages of CBS Night Information are based mostly on 4 days (Monday-Thursday). Friday’s (03/13/26) broadcast was retitled to CBS Night Nws. This broadcast is excluded from the weekly and season averages.
Based on nationwide stay+same-day large knowledge plus program rankings from Nielsen, ABC World Information Tonight averaged 8.478 million complete viewers and 1.033 million Adults 25-54 demo viewers for the week of March 9. The night newscast was down by -5% amongst complete viewers and -6% amongst A25-54 viewers in comparison with the earlier week. Taking a look at its efficiency throughout the identical week in 2025* (the week starting March 10), WNT was up +13% in complete viewers and +1% within the demo.
NBC Nightly Information with Tom Llamas completed second in complete viewers and the demo, averaging 6.514 million and 946,000 viewers, respectively. In comparison with the earlier week, Nightly Information declined by -6% in complete viewers and -10% within the demo. When evaluating its efficiency to the identical week a yr in the past, Nightly Information grew by +7% in complete viewers and +6% within the demo.
CBS Night Information had 3.845 million complete viewers and 468,000 viewers within the demo for the week of March 9. CBS Information’ newscast was down -7% in complete viewers and -8% within the demo in comparison with the earlier week. Its year-ago week numbers confirmed the newscast falling by -5% in complete viewers and -21% within the demo—the one broadcast with declines inside this yearly comparability.
*Please notice that year-over-year comparisons are based mostly on Nielsen Large Knowledge+Panel (2025) vs. Panel (2025) measurements.
