{"id":519453,"date":"2026-07-10T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/519453\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:56:10","slug":"nbc-abc-cbs-evening-news-ratings-show-big-swings-who-had-hot-start-to-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/519453\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC, ABC &#038; CBS Evening News Ratings Show Big Swings: Who Had Hot Start to July?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat To Know<\/p>\n<p>ABC World News Tonight was the only major evening news show to see week-over-week growth.<br \/>\nNBC Nightly News and CBS Evening News both experienced declines in weekly ratings.<br \/>\nHoliday scheduling shifts and anchor substitutions impacted the ratings data.<\/p>\n<p>The latest evening news ratings are in, and the summer started hot for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/world-news-tonight-with-david-muir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ABC World News Tonight with David Muir,<\/a> the only show to see a rise in total viewers and the key Adults 25-54 demographic.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the Fourth of July holiday led to scheduling shifts across all three major networks for the week of June 29; the ratings data is therefore based on different days. ABC News\u2019 average is based on the Monday and Tuesday broadcasts; CBS News\u2019 is based on Monday to Wednesday; and NBC News\u2019 is based on Monday to Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/world-news-tonight-with-david-muir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NBC Nightly News<\/a>\u2018 regular host, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/tom-llamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tom Llamas<\/a>, was off last week and replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/hallie-jackson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Haillie Jackson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/week-of-june-29-2026-evening-news-ratings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AdWeek<\/a>, citing national live+same-day big data plus program ratings from Nielsen, ABC World News Tonight averaged 8.128 million total viewers and 964,000 demo viewers for the week of June 29. This was up 8 percent in total viewers and up 1 percent in the key demo compared to the week before.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the same period in 2025, World News Tonight was up 13 percent in total viewers but down 3 percent in the demo.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Nightly News ranked second, averaging 6.16 million total viewers and 856,000 demo viewers. This was down 3 percent in total viewers and down 4 percent in the demo compared to the previous week. However, the show was up 12 percent in total viewers and the demo when compared to the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/cbs-evening-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil<\/a> fell back below the 4 million benchmark for the week of June 29. The show averaged 3.765 million total viewers and 501,000 demo viewers. This was down 6 percent in total viewers and down 13 percent in the demo compared to the week prior.<\/p>\n<p>However, there was better news in the year-over-year comparison, as CBS Evening News grew by 1 percent in total viewers and 8 percent in the key demo compared to the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-skm-boomerang-el-2=\"processed\">CBS Evening News, Weeknights, 6:30\/5:30c, CBS<\/p>\n<p>NBC Nightly News, Weeknights, 6:30\/5:30c, NBC<\/p>\n<p>ABC World News Tonight, Weeknights, 6:30\/5:30c, ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What To Know ABC World News Tonight was the only major evening news show to see week-over-week growth.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-519453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}