"ABC World News" Grows Both Overall and Demo Audiences Week-to-Week and Year-to-Year "World News with Diane Sawyer" Grows Overall and Demo Audiences Both Week-to-Week and Year-to-Year "World News" Cuts Overall Viewing Gap with "NBC Nightly News" by 22% Season-to-Date For the week of December 10, 2012, "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" averaged 8.35 million Total Viewers and a 1.8 rating/7 share/2.17 million in Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. For the 3rd week in a row and for the 7th time in the last 8 weeks, "World News" grew its overall audience year-to-year (+7%, 7.78 million on w/o 12/12/11). In fact, the ABC program also grew its demo audience year-to-year (+8%, 2.02 million on w/o 12/12/11). In addition, "World News" grew both its overall (+5%, 7.93 million on w/o 12/3/12) and demo (+6% - 2.05 million on w/o 12/3/12) audiences compared to the previous week. Season-to-date, "World News" has increased its Total Viewing audience (+1%, 7.83 million vs. 7.75 million) compared to the same point last season, drawing its most-watched season in 3 years - since the 2009-10 season. In addition, "World News" has narrowed its Total Viewer gap (-22%) with "NBC Nightly News" by double-digits for the second year in a row to post its smallest gap (751,000) with the NBC program in 4 years- since the 2008-09 season. "World News" outperformed "CBS Evening News" by 1.20 million Total Viewers and 142,000 Adults 25-54. Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 Live + SD weeks of 12/10/12, 12/3/12 & 12/12/11. Most Current - 2012-2013 Season (9/24 - 12/16/12) and 2011-2012 Season (9/19 - 12/18/11).