A historic Election Night victory for @NBCNews 🏆
📺 #1 on TV in total viewers & A25-54
📱 #1 on TikTok with 39M+ views
▶️ #1 election livestream on YouTube
From broadcast to social and streaming, millions turned to @NBCNews for Decision 2026 coverage.
RATINGS: @NBCNightlyNews marks its largest audience across the board in nearly 9 months.
✅Nightly News surpasses 1 million A25-54 viewers in 13 of the last 14 weeks.
✅Nightly News is the #3 most-watched program in all of TV last week in total viewers, excluding specials, sports & syndication.
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A year after the award-winning @NBCNews data investigation exposed alarming declines in vaccination among children in America, an exclusive follow-up finds the situation continues to erode, helping fuel the worst measles outbreak in 35 years.
An NBC News investigation finds three-quarters of counties with recent data on kindergarten immunization rates are below the threshold for community measles protection. https://t.co/thV7QdO898
ICYMI: What fueled @SteveKornacki through Election Night?
@NBCNews Chief Data Analyst took @NYMag inside his marathon week leading up to the midterms, sharing his routine, caffeine habits and how he powered through 10.5 hours of nonstop election coverage.
Most people know Steve Kornacki, NBC’s chief data analyst, as the white-shirt-and-khakis, nerdy-sexy stat guy who meticulously breaks down poll results on Election Night. He also makes regular appearances on the network’s sports broadcasts — as he did this past weekend at the Breeders’ Cup — but despite his weekly presence on the network’s Sunday-night NFL coverage, Election Day is Kornacki’s real Super Bowl. (This year, he live-streamed updates for over ten hours straight courtesy of the “Kornacki Cam,” amassing a record 29 million views.)
Having spent over a decade covering politics, Kornacki has developed a strict Election Night routine that purposely excludes food. “I read a biography of Red Auerbach, the legendary Boston Celtics coach, many years ago,” says Kornacki, who grew up in the Boston area. “He never ate on a game day because he believed that it took his edge off. That’s stuck with me through the years.”
Read Kornacki’s election-prep Grub Street Diet: https://t.co/NAVex2ka1L
“President Trump has said he’s willing to work with Democrats, but this first move of appointing Stephen Miller as chief of staff — the architect of the immigration crackdown — comes as exit polls show voters thought those policies went too far. One Republican lawmaker said, ‘I think this is Trump’s way of saying, “I’m going to fight you.”’” — @KWelkerNBC on the backlash to the president’s move to appoint Miller as his new White House chief of staff. https://t.co/PGjkkGoLWI
Big weekend read from @ThatRebecca about Johnny Depp’s return to the spotlight. (With great illustration from Justine Goode and graphic from @JZarracina).
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Total viewers, demo viewers, livestream viewers: Ladies and gentlemen, you made NBC #1 in every category on Tuesday night. Grateful to all of you, honored to be a part of it.
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“NBC led all the major cable and broadcast networks with 6.7 million viewers — a total that did not include a significant online audience for a livestream of its indefatigable data nerd, Steve Kornacki.
Nearly 2.4 million adults under 50 tuned in to NBC, an unusually youthful audience for traditional TV news.”
A historic Election Night victory for @NBCNews 🏆
📺 #1 on TV in total viewers & A25-54
📱 #1 on TikTok with 39M+ views
▶️ #1 election livestream on YouTube
From broadcast to social and streaming, millions turned to @NBCNews for Decision 2026 coverage.