World News Tonight Audience Graph • Social Signal

News publishers dominate World News Tonight's nearest audiences, with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest — a broad, evenly distributed cluster rather than a concentrated spike.

The shape is broad: the top 10 neighbors span a similarity range from 0.94 down to 0.89, with scores compressed tightly enough that no one entity stands out as a structural anchor. CBS News leads at 0.94, followed closely by NBC News (0.93), MSNBC (0.92), ABC News (0.92), and CNN (0.90). All five are News Publishers or TV Channels — the same broad media category as World News Tonight itself. That same-kind clustering continues with USA Today (0.89) and CBS This Morning (0.89).

The two departures from that pattern are worth noting. Susan Bennett, a Tech Personality, lands at 0.89 — matching USA Today's score — and Diane Sawyer, a Journalist, sits at 0.89 as well. Nightline (0.88), a fellow TV Show, rounds out the ten. So eight of the top 10 neighbors are Marketing Channels (News Publishers, TV Channels, or TV Shows), while two are individual Celebrities and Influencers — one a Journalist, one a Tech Personality. No sports, entertainment, or retail entities appear in the top 10.

The overall picture is an audience defined almost entirely by its relationship to broadcast and digital news, with minimal cross-category pull at the top of the similarity distribution.

Machine-Readable

Raw data

Attention graph /similar sample results (free):

https://graphs.socialsignal.ai/similar/abcworldnews

{ "handle": "abcworldnews", "title": "World News Tonight", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "TV Shows", "resolved": "abcworldnews", "k": 10, "shape": "broad", "filter": null, "results": [ { "handle": "cbsnews", "title": "CBS News", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "News Publishers", "similarity": 0.9425, "drivers": [ "N03", "A02", "G01", "Q04", "E02" ] }, { "handle": "nbcnews", "title": "NBC News", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "News Publishers", "similarity": 0.9276, "drivers": [ "N03", "A02", "G01", "G03", "J04" ] }, { "handle": "msnbc", "title": "MSNBC", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "TV Channels", "similarity": 0.9221, "drivers": [ "N03", "A02", "E02", "G01", "Q04" ] }, { "handle": "abc", "title": "ABC News", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "TV Channels", "similarity": 0.9182, "drivers": [ "Q04", "E02", "N03", "G01", "A02" ] }, { "handle": "cnn", "title": "CNN", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "News Publishers", "similarity": 0.8981, "drivers": [ "N03", "E02", "Q04", "G01", "A02" ] }, { "handle": "usatoday", "title": "USA Today", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "News Publishers", "similarity": 0.8939, "drivers": [ "N03", "G01", "Q04", "G03", "A02" ] }, { "handle": "siriouslysusan", "title": "Susan Bennett", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Tech Personalities", "similarity": 0.8922, "drivers": [ "E02", "N03", "Q04", "L02", "A02" ] }, { "handle": "dianesawyer", "title": "Diane Sawyer", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.8861, "drivers": [ "A02", "N03", "G01", "E02", "K02" ] }, { "handle": "cbsthismorning", "title": "CBS This Morning", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "TV Shows", "similarity": 0.8853, "drivers": [ "N03", "A02", "G01", "Q04", "G03" ] }, { "handle": "singhlions", "title": "Harjinder Singh Kukreja", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Professionals", "similarity": 0.8853, "drivers": [ "N03", "K02", "Q04", "J04", "E02" ] } ] }

Full Attention graph /similarity /affinity /demographics available with API key:

https://graphs.socialsignal.ai/v1/attention/similar/abcworldnews

World News Tonight

Nearest neighbors by audience shape

Raw data