Week of July 6 Evening News Ratings: WNT Remains Dominant

Viewers returned to the night newscasts after the lengthy vacation, with all three ending within the plus column for whole viewers for the week of July 6.

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir remained the most-watched newscast in whole viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. It continued to stretch its demo lead over NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas, crossing the million-viewer mark and ending with over 120,000 viewers greater than NBC News’ program.

Meanwhile, the news was not all good for CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil. Even although it noticed good points in whole viewers, it was the one broadcast to fall within the ad-coveted demo.

Note: The weekly averages of ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, and CBS Evening News are based mostly on 4 days (Monday-Thursday). Friday’s (07/10/2026) broadcasts had been retitled to WNT-ABC, NBC Nitely News, and CBS Evening Nws. These broadcasts are excluded from the weekly and season averages.

According to nationwide reside+same-day huge knowledge plus program scores from Nielsen, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir averaged 8.291 million whole viewers and 1.058 million Adults 25-54 demo viewers for the week of July 6. The night newscast was up +2% amongst whole viewers and +10% amongst A25-54 viewers in comparison with the earlier week. Looking at its efficiency throughout the identical week in 2025* (the week starting July 7), WNT was up +14% in whole viewers and +7% within the demo.

NBC Nightly News was in second place in whole viewers and within the demo, averaging 6.380 million and 935,000 viewers, respectively. Compared to the earlier week, Nightly News was up by +4% in whole viewers and +9% within the demo. When evaluating its efficiency to the identical week a 12 months in the past, Nightly News was up by +14% in whole viewers and +9% within the demo.

CBS Evening News completed the week of July 6 with 3.788 million whole viewers and 497,000 demo viewers. CBS News’ newscast grew by +1% in whole viewers however was down by -1% within the demo in comparison with the earlier week—the one newscast to lose viewers in both class. Its year-ago week numbers confirmed the newscast shedding viewers by -2% amongst whole viewers and -1% within the demo—the one newscast to lose viewers on this year-over-year comparability. 

*Please observe that year-over-year comparisons are based mostly on Nielsen Big Data+Panel (2026) vs. Panel (2025) measurements.

July 6, 2026  (Nielsen Big Data + Panel):