As the war in Israel and Gaza dominated national news broadcasts last week, NBC Nightly News scored a key ratings victory over ABC’s World News Tonight, with NBC beating ABC in the key demo of adults 25-54 for the full week.

Nightly News delivered a total audience of 1.124 million viewers, just ahead of World News Tonight’s 1.107 million viewers. It was NBC’s first full-week win in the key demo since March 2020, and represented a 32-week ratings high for the broadcast.

NBC also won the younger 18-49 demo, with a total audience of 768,000 viewers to ABC’s 765,000 viewers. World News Tonight won among total viewers for the week, with 7.4 million viewers. Nightly News was second overall with 6.7 million viewers, followed by CBS Evening News (4.8 million viewers).

Each of the broadcast evening news anchors deployed to Israel in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks, with both CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir returning home to Washington and New York, while Holt has remained in Tel Aviv, where he anchored coverage of President Biden’s trip to the region and the aftermath of the hospital explosion in Gaza.

Interest in the story has also been seen on digital platforms, where Nightly News had its best week since May 2020, with 36.6 million video views and 3 million hours of content viewed. On YouTube, full episodes of Nightly News reached 1.4 million views.