Here Are the 2nd Quarter of 2026 Evening News Ratings

Right here is TVNewser’s take a look at the Q2 2026 rankings for night newscasts and the night rankings for the week of June 22:

Week of June 22

CBS Night Information with Tony Dokoupil completed the final week of June with features in each whole viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. It crossed the 4 million whole viewers mark throughout this just-concluded week.

In the meantime, ABC World Information Tonight with David Muir recorded features within the advertiser-coveted demo for the week of June 22. This optimistic displaying gave ABC Information’ night newscast some life, because it managed to widen the viewership hole within the demo between it and NBC Nightly Information with Tom Llamas to 65,000 viewers, after 3,000 viewers had separated the 2 exhibits the earlier week–Llamas solely anchored on Monday, with Hallie Jackson anchoring the remaining days.

In keeping with nationwide reside+same-day huge knowledge plus program rankings from Nielsen, ABC World Information Tonight with David Muir averaged 7.528 million whole viewers and 955,000 Adults 25-54 demo viewers for the week of June 22. The night newscast was down -5% in whole viewers however up +3% amongst A25-54 viewers compared to the previous week. its efficiency throughout the identical week in 2025* (the week starting June 23), WNT was up +2% in whole viewers however down -8% within the demo—the one newscast to fall in both of the measured classes throughout this yearly comparability.

NBC Nightly Information was second in whole viewers and the demo, averaging 6.341 million and 890,000 viewers, respectively. In comparison with the earlier week, Nightly Information was flat in whole viewers and was down -4% within the demo. When evaluating its efficiency to the identical week a 12 months in the past, Nightly Information was up by +10% in whole viewers and +6% within the demo.

CBS Night Information completed the week of June 22 with 4.015 million whole viewers and 576,000 demo viewers. CBS Information’ newscast grew by +2% in whole viewers and within the demo in comparison with the earlier week—the one program with features in each classes. Its year-ago week numbers confirmed the newscast rising by +3% amongst whole viewers and +12% within the demo. 

*Please notice that year-over-year comparisons are based mostly on Nielsen Large Knowledge+Panel (2026) vs. Panel (2025) measurements.

June 22, 2026  (Nielsen Large Knowledge + Panel):

Second Quarter 2026

Turning to the quarterly rankings, all three broadcasts skilled quarter-to-quarter declines in whole viewers and the prized Adults 25-54 demo.