NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LESTER HOLT Wins Across the Board; Ranks #1 This Season

NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LESTER HOLT ranked #1 across the board for the week of January 16, averaging 9.44 million total viewers, leading "ABC World News Tonight" by +306,000 viewers (+3%) and "CBS Evening News" by +1.9 million viewers (+26%). Nightly News has been #1 among total viewers in seven of the last nine weeks.

Season to date, Nightly News is the #1 evening newscast across the board. Compared to last season, Nightly News has increased its A25-54 lead over ABC by +24 percent (+262,000 vs. +211,000).

Nightly News continues its dominance in the demo, averaging 2.4 million A25-54 viewers for the week, leading ABC by +223,000 (+10%) and CBS by +701,000 (+42%). Among A18-49, Nightly News averaged 1.8 million viewers, topping ABC by +247,000 (+16%) and CBS by +582,000 (+50%). The NBC News broadcast has ranked #1 in A25-54 and A18-49 for 77 of the last 78 weeks.

Holt spent last week across the U.S. on the road to Washington D.C. for the presidential inauguration, talking with Americans about the nation's most pressing issues and their hopes for the next four years. Holt anchored "NBC Nightly News" from Sacramento, Calif., Warren, Mich., Fayetteville, N.C. and the nation's capital as part of "Across America," a special series for "NBC Nightly News." He also led NBC News' all-day inauguration coverage on January 20, which was the most-watched coverage on the broadcast networks, averaging 5.8 million total viewers.

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