NBC's Nightly News Starts 2015 As Number One

TV By The Numbers

Brian Williams

“NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” was America’s #1 newscast in total viewers and all key demos for the week of January 12-16, 2015, according to Nielsen Media Research data.

Nightly has now been #1 among viewers A25-54 in 6 of the past 7 weeks and 8 of the last 11 weeks, and is leading ABC’s “World News Tonight” by +12,000 viewers A25-54 season-to-date.

Versus the first two weeks of 1Q’15, Nightly continues to grow its audience across-the-board increasing among total viewers (+4%), A18-49 viewers (+5%), and A25-54 viewers (+6%).

The NBC broadcast is posting +1% growth in total viewers versus the previous year and delivering its best start to a season since 2005. Nightly has now been the #1 evening newscast in total viewers for 278 consecutive weeks.