A 12 months in the past, the information cycle was starting to fireplace on all cylinders because the 2024 presidential election was dealt a seismic jolt: Then-President Joe Biden introduced he could be stepping down as his get together’s presidential candidate, thrusting his vice chairman, Kamala Harris, into the highlight. This similar week in 2024 additionally noticed the graduation of the Summer time Olympic Video games in Paris.
The absence of such main political and international information throughout the identical week of 2025 resulted in all three night newscasts recording no beneficial properties in whole viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo.
For the week of July 21, ABC World Information Tonight with David Muir was the one newscast to not see declines throughout the board, with its timeslot opponents from NBC Information and CBS Information registering week-to-week losses in each measured classes.
In keeping with live-plus-same-day knowledge from Nielsen, ABC World Information Tonight averaged 7.272 million whole viewers and 1 million Adults 25-54 demo viewers for the week of July 21. It remained flat in whole viewers and noticed a -4% fall within the demo in comparison with the earlier week. its efficiency to the identical week in 2024 (the week starting July 22), WNT was down -4% in whole viewers and -10% within the demo.
NBC Nightly Information with Tom Llamas completed because the No. 2 night information broadcast in whole viewers and the demo, averaging 5.487 million and 775,000 viewers, respectively. The printed, which simply noticed the departure of govt producer Meghan Rafferty to Versant, was down -2% in whole viewers and -8% within the A25-54 demo. When evaluating its efficiency to the identical week a 12 months in the past, Nightly Information had double-digit falls of -11% in whole viewers and -18% within the demo.
CBS Night Information had 3.615 million whole viewers and 495,000 viewers within the demo for the week of July 21. The printed was down -4% in whole viewers and -1% within the demo in comparison with the week prior. Its year-ago week numbers additionally had double-digit falls of -18% in whole viewers and -19% within the demo.
ABC NBC CBS • Complete Viewers: 7,272,000 5,487,000 3,615,000 • A25-54: 1,000,000 775,000 495,000
