New York Evening, Late News Viewing -7%

New York evening and latenight news viewership fell 11% in the May sweeps compared to May 2013 with Fox’s WNYW and WWOR taking some of the biggest hits, according to a TVNewsCheck analysis of the Nielsen’s count of weekday viewers aged 25 to 54 of news at 5, 6,10 and 11 p.m.

WNYW was down 47% at 5 p.m., 34% at 6 and 17% at 10. Sister station WWOR fell 62%.

But there were plenty of negative numbers to go around. In fact, the only gainers were WABC at 5 (+23%), WABC at 6 (+14%), Telemundo’s WNJU at 6 (+36%) and Univision’s at 11 p.m. (+10%).

In the ratings race among the Big 3, WABC continue to hold on to the top spot in all three time periods. WCBS was second at 5 p.m., but third at 6 and 11 p.m. Suffering less viewer erosion, WNBC passed WCBS for second place at 6 and 11.

Tribune WPIX was a statistical outlier, growing a whopping 52% at 5 p.m. The jump pushed it close to overtaking WNYW for fourth place in the time period. WPIX didn’t fare as well at 10 p.m., dropping 14 percentage points and failing to close significantly on WNYW.

WABC’s 11 p.m. newscast drew the largest audience of all those examined — 208,000. Univision WXTV at 11 p.m. came in second with 184,000 viewers.