The volatility of the stock market and the latest tariff news were not enough to draw viewers to the evening news broadcasts. All three newcasts experienced declines in total viewers and Adults 25-54 for the week of April 7.

CBS News saw the biggest week-to-week declines as its reimagined flagship evening news broadcast posted a double-digit drop in the advertiser-coveted demo.

Note: The weekly average of CBS Evening News is based on four days (Tuesday – Friday). Monday’s (04/07/2025) broadcast was retitled to CBS Evening Nws due to the Men’s Basketball NCAA Tournament Championship game. This broadcast is excluded from the weekly and season averages.

According to live-plus-same-day data from Nielsen, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir averaged 7.484 million total viewers and 1.020 A25-54 viewers. That translates to declines of -1% in the former category and -2% in the latter compared to the previous week. Looking at its performance alongside the same week in 2024 (the week of April 8), WNT was up +1% in total viewers, but dipped -2% in the demo.

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt finished as the No. 2 evening newscast in total viewers and the demo, averaging 6.089 million viewers and 849,000 viewers, respectively. Week-to-week Nightly News was down a respective -1% and -6% in those measured categories. Year-to-year, the newscast was flat in total viewers, but up +2% in the demo—the largest increase of any of the networks in either viewership category.  

Tom Llamas—Holt’s successor on Nightly News—anchored the broadcast on Wednesday and Thursday.

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