MEDIA WINNER:
Lester Holt For the first time in nearly three years, NBC News' Nightly News with Lester Holt topped ABC News in the key demo for two consecutive broadcasts.
The show, anchored by Lester Holt, is the only newscast to increase both total viewership and ratings in the key 25-54 age demographic in week-over-week measurements.
Holt's show is specifically up 12,000 total viewers and 9,000 demo viewers.
The week of Feb. 20, Nightly News ranked second in total viewers for the week with 7.204 million total viewers, excluding specials, sports & syndication.
The ratings were enough to top CBS News by 43 percent -- marking the largest advantage over the network since December.
The show also averaged 1.164 million demo viewers a night that week, beating CBS News by 51 percent, and generating the smallest gap between the NBC and ABCs' total viewership since 2022.
NBC's demo gap between ABC is also the smallest its been since 2021.
The impressive ratings from Holt were enough -- at least for now -- to unseat ABC News anchor David Muir, who has maintained a stranglehold on the top spot in the nightly news ratings for years.
Kudos on these numbers, which let NBC top ABC in the demo twice in a row last week, despite Muir's interview with President Joe Biden. | 