NBC Nightly Pulls Away from ABC's World News in the Demos

Brian Williams and NBC Nightly News continues to put distance between themselves and ABC's World News Tonight.

Nightly News was number 1 in both total viewers and the key demo A25-54 for the month of January, marking its second straight monthly demo win.

Nightly topped ABC “World News Tonight” by an average of +219,000 viewers A25-54 in January.

The NBC broadcast was #1 across the board for the week of January 26-30, 2015, according to Nielsen Media Research data. Nightly has been #1 among viewers A25-54 for 4 consecutive weeks, 8 of the last 9 weeks, and 10 of the last 13 weeks. Nightly has now been the #1 evening newscast in total viewers for 280 consecutive weeks.