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ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir beat the other broadcast network evening newscasts in the November sweep by posting a win in total viewers and a narrow victory in the key 25-54 audience. The network said that it was the first time since 1996 that the newscast posted a November victory in both categories. It…

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…

The questioners are set for next month’s Round 3 of the Democratic presidential debates on ABC and Univision. Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos, World News Tonight David Muir anchor and ABC News correspondent Linsey Davis will be posing the questions along with Univision’s Jorge Ramos. The next…

John Oliver closed out his latest edition of Last Week Tonight mocking the Instagram antics of TV news talent, aka  “people who already have outlets to express themselves.” “An adult asking you to follow them on social media gives the same vibe as a clown asking you to join him in a sewer,” Oliver observed,  after…

ABC News' World News Tonight With David Muir ranked as the No. 1 evening newscast in total viewers during an Olympics week for the first time in more than 25 years. Last time that happened was the week of August 3, 1992 – Week 2 of the 1992 Summer Olympics. During the week of February 12, ABC’s evening newscast…

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt has won its eighth straight sweep in the news demographic, viewers 25-54. ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir took the May sweep in total viewers, after February and November sweep wins in same metric, marking ABC News’ first such streak since Peter Jennings anchored 21 years…

Saturday’s rally in Florida that the White House announced Wednesday afternoon is a campaign rally for President Donald Trump’s re-election in four years, ABC News anchor David Muir told Jimmy Kimmel last night his late-night show, as they discussed Trump’s reactions to reports that his aides communicated with Russian…

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel mined his network’s interview with President Donald Trump and came up with gold. Kimmel noted how cartoonishly villainous Trump sounded at times during his interview with David Muir – particularly when Muir asked if he thought denying help to Syrian refugees would result in more anger…

Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity landed the second interview with Donald Trump since he was was sworn in as president, and it will air tonight. ABC News’ David Muir landed the first interview. This appears not to sit well with Hannity who, well into his sit-down, noted to POTUS, “Waterboarding, black sites came up in…

UPDATED with video President Donald Trump gave his first big primetime network interview tonight, and took the opportunity to revisit his old nemeses, the media. Trump told ABC News anchor David Muir that the press covered his CIA speech “very inaccurately” (except for Fox), that the author of the infamous Pew Report…

“He’s groveling,” President Donald Trump told ABC News’ David Muir about the author of the 2012 Pew report on which Trump is basing his claims of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election he won. That was Trump’s response when Muir told him he had interviewed the author of the 2012 Pew report, who told him…

Donald Trump tells ABC News’ David Muir he’s “absolutely” convinced waterboarding works and will “keep our country safe” but will defer to his cabinet in deciding whether the United States resumes the practice. “When ISIS is doing things nobody has ever heard of since medieval times, would I feel strongly about water…