David Muir is celebrating his fifth anniversary as “World News Tonight” anchor with something that’s rare in television: a larger audience.
The ABC newscast finished its year-long season last week with an average of 8.6 million viewers a night, the Nielsen company said. It’s the third straight year ABC has won the evening news ratings competition, with its largest margin over NBC in 23 years and CBS in 27 years, the network said.
“World News Tonight” was averaging 7.9 million viewers when Muir replaced Diane Sawyer as anchor of ABC’s flagship newscast in September 2014. At the time, NBC’s “Nightly News” was the most popular newscast behind anchor Brian Williams, who was replaced by Lester Holt in 2015 after Williams was found to have made false claims about reporting in Iraq.
“David Muir has a unique ability to connect with the American audience,” said Almin Karamehmedovic, executive producer of “World News Tonight.” ‘’He’s passionate and he’s fearless and he delivers the stories in a way that really resonates.”
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