ABC News Audience Graph • Social Signal

News publishers dominate ABC News's nearest audiences, with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest — a broad shape spread across broadcast rivals, digital outlets, and a surprising mix of professionals and activists.

The shape is broad: the top 10 neighbors span a 0.05-point range from CBS News at 0.94 down to Yahoo News at 0.89, with no single entity commanding a decisive lead. CNN sits at 0.93, Nightline at 0.92, World News Tonight at 0.92, and NBC News at 0.91 — all News Publishers or TV Shows clustered tightly together. MSNBC (0.90) is the one fellow TV Channel in the top 10. That accounts for six of the ten neighbors drawn from broadcast and cable news infrastructure.

The remaining four break the pattern. Susan Bennett, a Tech Personality, scores 0.89. Digital Trends, a Website, reaches 0.89. CNN Breaking News, a News Publisher, sits at 0.89. And Change.org, an Activism organization, ties Yahoo News at 0.89. The presence of a tech personality and a petition platform alongside legacy broadcast brands suggests the audience shape extends beyond news consumption into civic and digital-media engagement — without any single outlier pulling the cluster in a new direction.

The broad shape here reflects an audience that mirrors the mainstream news ecosystem almost uniformly, with no structural niche and no dominant single neighbor.

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