Ratings: "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" Slashes Demo Gap with NBC by 40%, Year-to-Year ABC Outperforms "CBS Evening News" by 1.35 Million Viewers and by 211,000 Adults 25-54 For the week of April 16, 2012, "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" averaged 7.12 million Total Viewers and a 1.6 rating/6 share/1.88 million in Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. "World News" slashed its year-ago gap with "NBC Nightly News" among Adults 25-54 by -40% (316,000 vs. 525,000). In fact, "World News" has decreased its year-to-year news demo gap with the NBC program by double-digits for the 7th week in a row and in 8 of the last 9 weeks. Season-to-date, "World News" has narrowed the gaps with "NBC Nightly News" among both Total Viewers (-1%) and Adults 25-54 (-21%), posting its smallest Total Viewer (1.09 million) and news demo margins (368,000) with the NBC program in 3 years - since the 2008-09 season. "World News" outperformed "CBS Evening News" by 1.35 million Total Viewers and by 211,000 Adults 25-54, drawing its largest Total Viewer lead over the CBS program in 5 weeks - since w/o 3/12/12. Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 Live + SD weeks of 4/16/12, 4/9/12 & 4/18/11. Most Current - 2011-2012 Season (9/19/11 - 4/22/12) and 2010-2011 Season (9/20/11 - 4/24/11).