ABC’s David Muir Tops NBC’s Lester Holt in Weekly Ratings for First Time in Nearly 2 Years

The Oscars airing on Sunday certainly didn’t hurt the weeknights

David Muir and Lester Holt
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ABC’s “World News Tonight” with anchor David Muir just topped NBC’s “Nightly News” with Lester Holt in weekly TV ratings for the first time in nearly two years.

The ABC News program won March 5-9 in the key 25-54 demographic, the 18-49 demo, and total viewers last week. Ordinarily, it is the main demo that alludes the Disney-owned journalism arm.

ABC’s victory snapped a 21-month, 89-week demo win streak for NBC News. It definitely didn’t hurt the Monday-Friday results that the Oscars had aired on Sunday.

The surging “World News Tonight” on ABC averaged 9.215 million total viewers last week, with 1.988

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