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Olympics Give A Boost To ‘NBC Nightly News’ With Two Weeks Of Ratings Wins


'NBC Nightly News' benefited from a big spike in Olympics interest.

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. Absent an Olympics, it’s pretty hard to shake broadcast network viewership habits, in which World News Tonight has led for years. This week’s numbers are for Monday to Thursday for CBS and ABC, which excluded their Friday telecasts from the averages.

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