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Almin Karamehmedovic has been promoted to senior executive producer of World News Tonight with David Muir, and he will take on expanded duties developing short and long form projects. Karamehmedovic has led World News Tonight since August, 2014. In that time, it has become No. 1 in viewership among all newscasts on…

ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir again finished the season on top in total viewers and the key demographic, but all the network evening newscasts saw their viewership drop in 2020-21 versus a year earlier. The newscast averaged 8.74 million total viewers, down 7% from 9.39 million a season earlier. NBC Nightly…

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt won key demographics during the two weeks of the network’s Olympics coverage, while World News Tonight with David Muir continued its streak atop total viewers. Last week, Nightly News drew 1.44 million viewers in the 25-54 demo, compared to 1.34 million for World News Tonight and…

ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir topped ratings in the first quarter, but the period also showed viewership coming back down to Earth across all of the evening newscasts. World News Tonight averaged 9.6 million total viewers, a drop of 2% from 9.8 million in the first quarter a year earlier, a period…

A year after the start of the Covid-19 shutdowns, network evening news viewership fell to levels resembling pre-pandemic habits. Viewership for World News Tonight with David Muir, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell was down for the week of March 8 compared to the same period a…

ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir topped its broadcast rivals in the first week of the new season. The newscast drew 8.5 million viewers, compared with 7.33 million for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and 5.15 million for CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell. In the 25-54 demo, World News Tonight had…

Reminder from the past: A media blitz can change history. And that's not necessarily good news for democracy. At a time of enforced distancing, ratings for news shows are presently at their highest levels in a generation, at both network and local station levels. ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir registers…

Before he goes on the air each night, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir listens in his earpiece to the White House coronavirus press briefings, which usually offer a mix of important updates on the pandemic — mixed in with President Donald Trump’s complaints about the media, Democratic governors and the World…

The final Nielsen numbers for the just-completed 2018-2019 network news season are in, and ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir again finished first in total viewers and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt beat its rivals in key demographics. But viewership was flat or down across the board, even as the networks…