As the Fall season kicks off, ABC News' "World News Tonight with David Muir" opened with the largest premiere week Total Viewer victory in 24 years (7.961 million).

For the week of Sept. 23, 2019, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. The ABC evening newscast led "NBC Nightly News" (7.279 million) by 682,000 total viewers.

But, in the demo, it is a dead heat with ABC and NBC and CBS is a distant 3rd.

A breakdown of the numbers:

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