NBC and its streaming service Peacock saw a big viewership boost from the Olympics, and the Paris Games also gave the network’s nightly newscast two weeks of ratings wins.
NBC Nightly News averaged 7.62 million viewers, topping ABC World News Tonight with 7.52 million and CBS Evening News with 4.45 million.
NBC Nightly News also was first in the 25-54 demo, averaging 1.47 million, followed by World News Tonight with 1 million and CBS Evening News with 583,000.
Lester Holt anchored Nightly News from Paris throughout the games. The numbers also are improvement from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, when World News Tonight still beat Nightly News in total viewers, although the NBC broadcast still topped in demos.
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