In Chicago, “NBC Nightly News” was up 29% year-over-year in June among adults 25-to-54, according to Nielsen data supplied by NBC 5 Chicago.

NBC Nightly News has continued to see its ratings drop in the past month after Lester Holt left and Tom Llamas replaced him. The 46-year-old journalist became the anchor of the program on June 2 ...

Newsweek reached out to Holt's representative via email for comment.. The Context. Holt was named anchor of NBC Nightly News in June 2015. Prior to that, the 66-year-old anchored the news show's ...

Tom Llamas has officially been behind the anchor desk of NBC Nightly News for more than a month, and the ratings for his first full month as Lester Holt‘s replacement have been revealed.. For ...

For the month of June 2025, NBC Nightly News averaged around 5.674 million viewers, which was down from the 5.708 million viewers that Holt averaged at the end of his run.