NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH NIGHTLY NEWS Wins The Week in Ratings

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt is the #1 most-watched evening broadcast in the key news demo for the week of October 15, according to Nielsen Media Research data. Nightly News continues as the #1 most-watched evening newscast season-to-date in the key demo, delivering its largest demo lead over CBS in five seasons.

The broadcast continues its strong performance in the key demo averaging 1.7 million A25-54 viewers, besting ABC World News Tonight by +160,000 viewers (+10%). The broadcast not only widened its year-over-year lead against ABC, but nearly tripled its week-over-week advantage. The broadcast topped CBS Evening News by +599,000 viewers (+54%). Nightly News has won the key demo for 12 consecutive weeks.

For the week of October 15, Nightly News is the most-watched broadcast among A18-49 viewers, averaging 1.2 million. The broadcast topped ABC by +103,000 viewers (+10%) - more than doubling its year-over-year advantage - and CBS by +399,000 viewers (+51%).

7.8 million total viewers tuned in to Nightly News for the week of October 15 leading CBS Evening News by 2.1 million total viewers (+36%) and posting the narrowest total viewer margin against ABC since winning the first week of the PyeongChang Games (2/05/2018).

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