"World News Tonight" is Only Broadcast to Improve Year-to-Year Across All Key Measures: Total Viewers (+9%), Adults 25-54 (+16%) and Adults 18-49 (+14%) Season to Date, "World News Tonight" Ranks #1 among Adults 25-54 - First Time in 7 Years; Improving by +7%, While "NBC Nightly News" Down by -8% "World News Tonight" Slashes Year-to-Year Gaps with "NBC Nightly News" by Double Digits In Total Viewers (-41%) and Adults 18-49 (-69%) "World News Tonight with David Muir" ranked as the No. 1 evening newscast in Adults 25-54 (2.283 million) during the week of November 10, 2014, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. Attracting the largest Adults 25-54 audience for any network this season, "World News Tonight" won its 7th week of the 8 weeks this season, delivering the ABC program's best competitive start to a season in 19 years - since the 1995-96 season, when "World News Tonight" won the first 11 weeks to start the season. Last week, "World News Tonight" featured a profile by Anchor David Muir on a World War II veteran at the Veterans Day Parade, reporting by Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz on American sailors attacked in Turkey and reporting by Senior National Correspondent Jim Avila on taxpayers floating the bill for police payouts. "World News Tonight" delivered year-to-year gains (8.243 million, 1.961 million and 1.319 million, respectively, on w/o 11/11/13) across all key target demos: Total Viewers (+9%), Adults 25-54 (+16%) and Adults 18-49 (+14%). In addition, "World News Tonight" grew the most in overall viewers and stood as the only evening newscast to grow in either key adult demo compared to "CBS Evening News (+4%/-1%/-6%) and "NBC Nightly News" (+3%/-5%/-6%). "World News Tonight" scored season highs for the 2nd week in a row in Total Viewers (8.989 million) and Adults 25-54 (2.283 million). In fact, building on the previous week's season highs (8.756 million and 2.179 million for w/o 11/3/14) by 3% in Total Viewers and by 5% in Adults 25-54, the ABC evening newscast drew its largest overall audience since February and best news demo performance since March - since weeks of 2/3/14 and 3/24/14, respectively. "World News Tonight" slashed its margins with "NBC Nightly News" from the year-ago week by more than a third in Total Viewers (-41% - 649,000 vs. 1.102 million) and by more than two-thirds in Adults 18-49 (-69% - 130,000 vs. 413,000). 1 evening newscast in Adults 25-54, leading "NBC Nightly News" by 52,000 news demo viewers. In addition, "World News Tonight" slashed its season gaps with "NBC Nightly News" by 41% in Total Viewers (501,000 vs. 854,000) and by 69% in Adults 18-49 (80,000 vs. 262,000) to its closest performances in 6 years and 7 years, respectively - since the 2008-09 and the 2007-08 seasons, respectively. "World News Tonight" is improving versus the same point last season in Total Viewers (+6%), Adults 25-54 (+7%) and Adults 18-49 (+4%). Standing as the only evening newscast to be up in all key measures, "World News Tonight" is improving the most in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 compared to "CBS Evening News" (up less than +1%/+2%) and "NBC Nightly News" (+2%/-8%). For the week, "World News Tonight" led the "CBS Evening News" by 1.554 million Total Viewers, by 465,000 Adults 25-54 and by 321,000 Adults 18-49. Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD weeks of 11/10/14, 11/3/14 and 11/11/13. Most Current: 2014-2015 Season (9/22 - 11/16/14) and 2013-2014 Season (9/23 - 11/17/13).