'NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS' PULLS AHEAD; WIDENS THE GAP OVER ABC TO 1.4 MILLION VIEWERS
Tue Nov 15 2005 14:22:15 ET
"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" had a big ratings win last week, topping ABC's "World News Tonight" by a 16% or +1.390 million viewers - representing the program's best advantage over ABC since the week of the Brokaw/Williams anchor transition (November 29, 2004).
For the week of November 7 - 11, 2005, "Nightly News" attracted an impressive 10.172 million total viewers, ABC placed a distant second with 8.782 million and CBS' "Evening News" closed in on ABC with 8.069 million viewers.
This also represents "Nightly's" best delivery in total viewers since the week of August 29, 2005 (Hurricane Katrina) and excluding that week, the broadcast's best delivery since the week of February 28, 2005. "Nightly News" has now placed first in total viewers for 70 of the last 71 weeks.
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