ABC World News Tonight Tops Ratings

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir is the top-rated national evening newscast yet again.  For the week leading into Memorial Day, ABC News’ evening juggernaut averaged 7.40 million total viewers and more than 1.14 million A25-54 viewers. That’s according to live plus same day data from Nielsen for the week beginning May 22, 2023. WNT marked its ninth consecutive week as the most-watched regularly-scheduled U.S. show across broadcast and cable, and has now defeated its evening news competition from NBC and CBS 234 of the past 235 weeks in average total viewers—and 163 of the last 165 weeks among Adults 25-54.

Tiffany Justice joins KRON 4 San Francisco TV

Tiffany Justice has headed west as of May 2023 to KRON 4 San Francisco television after leaving FOX 26 Houston TV KRIV in November 2022.  Justice joined KRIV in 2019 from her hometown station KUTV 2 Salt Lake City, Utah where she had been a reporter and fill-in anchor starting in 2017.  A University of Utah grad, Justice previously worked for KOCO5 News Oklahoma City as a weekend morning anchor and reporter.  The Rocky Mountain Emmy Award winner began her TV news career at KTVZ NewsChannel 21 Central Oregon as a producer/reporter/anchor.

Matt Prichard Joining WBTS Boston TV

NBC’S Boston O&O WBTS has hired Matt Prichard as NBC10 Boston television political reporter. Prichard, an award-winning journalist who has been covering news and politics for more than a decade, will begin his new role on Monday, Aug. 7.  Prichard comes to Boston from KUSI San Diego television where he was a weekend anchor and weekday reporter.

Deevon Rahming joins KHOU 11 Houston TV

Deevon Rahming is joining KHOU 11 Houston television via TEGNA sister-station KARE 11 Minneapolis, Minnesota where he’s a reporter.  Rahming joined KARE 11 in January 2020 from ABC 15 News WPDE Florence, South Carolina where he had been a multimedia journalist since December 2017.  The Florida State University grad interned with WSB Atlanta television and worked as a production assistant for Fox 4 News WFTX Fort Myers, Florida. The Florida Keys native also worked as a WINK News production assistant while in high school.

Meagan Harris Named News Director at KTVT-KTXA Dallas

Award-winning news executive and producer Meagan Harris has been named vice president and news director at CBS Stations’ local businesses in Dallas-Fort Worth, including KTVT (CBS), KTXA (independent), the CBS Texas streaming channel and CBSTexas.com.  Harris, who will assume her new role on Monday, June 5, has spent most of her 20-plus year journalism career working in Texas, including 10 years in the Dallas-Fort Worth market. Most recently, she has served as the news director of NBCLX, a multiplatform national news network that targets millennials and features live newscasts that originate from KXAS, the NBC O&O in Fort Worth.

On Food Network’s Alex vs America it’s Hawaii

Eric Adjepong invites three chefs from Hawaii to take on Alex Guarnaschelli in a competition celebrating the uniqueness of Hawaiian food.  They will have to impress judges Roy Yamaguchi and Sheldon Simeon to beat Chef Alex and claim their prize.  It happens at 8pm ET tonight on the Food Network.

NBC’s Today #1 25-54 – GMA #1 Total Viewers

It’s a tug of war for first place between ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today in the key advertiser demo of Adults 25-54. This development has now extended into the fifth week, with NBC’s morning show emerging victorious in this go around.  Today earned its largest lead over GMA in the demo in nine weeks, beating ABC News’ morning show by +42,000 A25-54 viewers. GMA still came out on top in total viewers for the week of May 8.  Third place CBS Mornings, for the week of May 8, dropped by -3% in total viewers compared to the previous week to stand at 2.35 million total viewers on average, and saw a double-digit fall of -10% in the A25-54 demo to stand at 490,000 viewers.

Eva Pilgrim and DeMarco Morgan New Anchors of GMA3

ABC News has found its new co-anchors for Good Morning America’s third hour (GMA3): GMA Weekend co-anchor Eva Pilgrim and ABC News Los Angeles-based correspondent DeMarco Morgan.  They’ll be joined on GMA3: What You Need to Know each afternoon by Dr. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News chief health and medical correspondent.  Pilgrim joined ABC News in 2015 as a correspondent based in New York and has served as co-anchor of GMA Saturday and Sunday broadcasts since 2018.

BBC News Adds Caitríona Perry as Chief Presenter in Washington, D.C.

BBC News has named Caitríona Perry a chief presenter broadcasting out of the Washington, D.C., bureau. She joins fellow chief presenter Sumi Somaskanda in the U.S. capital.  Perry is familiar with the D.C. area, having served as the US-based correspondent for RTÉ, Ireland’s national public service broadcaster. Prior to this appointment, Perry was the anchor for RTÉ’s main evening news program and and fronted special event programming.  In April, BBC soft relaunched its new single unified news network, the BBC News Channel. The unified news network combined BBC News, a U.K.-focused news channel, and BBC World News, its international channel.

CNN Trump Town Hall Draws 3.31 Million

CNN’s Republican Presidential Town Hall with former President Trump ranked No. 1 among all cable news broadcasts Wednesday in both total viewers and adults 25-54, and No. 2 in all of cable, behind only NBA Playoffs on TNT, according to Nielsen live plus same day data.  Hosted by Kaitlan Collins, the Town Hall out of St. Anselm College in New Hampshire averaged 3.31 million total viewers from 8-9:15 p.m. ET. Fox News averaged 1.45 million and MSNBC averaged 1.4 million total viewers in the same time period.  That said, Wednesday’s event came up short to CNN’s 2020 Joe Biden Town Hall, which averaged 3.465 million total viewers on Sept. 17, 2020.