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25 August 2008 10:36 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The Democratic National Convention is due to open tonight (Monday), but with Barack Obama already established as the party's presidential nominee and Joe Biden it's vice-presidential, some writers were asking whether the convention -- as well as the upcoming Republican one -- doesn't merely amount to a political infomercial. Others were questioning the need for a political convention at all. Drama was building over whether ailing Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy would attend tonight's (Monday) session. The Boston Herald quoted his son Patrick as saying that his father wants to attend a planned tribute that is to be staged for him tonight. Meanwhile, ABC News is using the convention to launch the expansion of its news programming into HDTV. Not only will it carry the conventions in HDTV, but also its World News With Charles Gibson, Nightline, Primetime and 20/20.

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20 August 2008 10:39 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The huge audience tuning in for the Beijing Olympics has given a boost to NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams, which precedes it in primetime in many markets. After ordinarily running neck-and-neck with (and often being beaten by) ABC's World News With Charles Gibson, the NBC newscast pulled far out in front last week with an average of 9.4 million viewers to ABC's 6.9 million. CBS's numbers appeared unaffected. CBS Evening News With Katie Couric remained a distant third with 5.6 million viewers, which is about its average weekly figure.

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18 August 2008 10:26 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The overwhelming majority of people who watch cable and broadcast newscasts and topical variety shows are unable to identify the party that now controls Congress, name the current secretary of state, and name Britain's new prime minister, according to the new Pew Survey on News Consumption. The national average for answering those three questions is only 18 percent, the study found; only 10 percent among viewers of the CBS Evening News With Katie Couric, by far the lowest ranked among the nightly news programs. The survey said that 21 percent of the viewers of NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams could answer the questions; 19 percent of the viewers of ABC World News with Charles Gibson could. Ranking higher than any of the nightly newscasts, however, were Comedy Central's The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with 34 percent and 30 percent respectively.

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30 July 2008 10:26 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Among the network nightly newscasts, NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams remained in the lead with 7.31 million viewers, once again edging out ABC's World News with Charles Gibson, which captured 7.17 million viewers. CBS Evening News with Katie Couric continued to trail with 5.60 million viewers.

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23 July 2008 10:27 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

ABC and NBC wound up in a virtual tie for first place among the three nightly newscasts. Nielsen gave them an identical 5 rating and 11 share and noted that NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams averaged 7.23 million viewers, while ABC's World News With Charles Gibson drew 7.22 million. The difference was statistically insignificant. CBS Evening News with Katie Couric remained substantially behind with 5.5 million viewers.

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2 July 2008 10:37 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams remained the most-watched network evening newscast during the second quarter, averaging 8 million viewers each night, according to Nielsen Media Research. It edged out ABC's World News With Charles Gibson, which recorded 7.8 million viewers. Last year, the order was reversed. Meanwhile CBS Evening News With Katie Couric continued to lose viewers, averaging 5.6 million, down 528,000 viewers from the same quarter a year ago. If Couric was feeling depressed by the latest ratings news, they may have been lifted by the announcement that the Radio-Television News Directors Association had awarded her program the Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast.

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4 June 2008 10:41 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The ABC and NBC newscasts once again ended in a photo finish, with Nielsen giving a slight edge to ABC World News With Charles Gibson which, it said, attracted 7.66 million viewers, while NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams attracted 7.65 million viewers, a statistically insignificant difference. The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric remained well behind with 5.54 million viewers.

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29 May 2008 10:04 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Among the evening newscasts, NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams continued to lead with a 5.5 rating and a 12 share representing 8.1 million viewers -- a bigger audience than most of Nbc's primetime programs. ABC World News With Charles Gibson remained close behind with an identical 5.5/12 but with about 300,000 fewer viewers. CBS Evening News with Katie Couric set another record low with a 3.8/8, representing 5.33 million viewers.

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23 April 2008 10:20 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

While CBS News executives continue to point out that it took Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings a long time to climb to the top of the ratings, the latest Nielsen results show Katie Couric climbing in the wrong direction. In fact, her numbers fell to a record low as she averaged just 5.39 million viewers last week. It was not a good day for Couric Tuesday. Besides learning about her falling ratings, she also learned that the North Carolina debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, which she had been tapped to moderate, had been called off. And, in apparent response to rumors that Couric was hoping to jump to CNN and replace Larry King if she left CBS, CNN announced that it had extended King's contract through 2010. Meanwhile, NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams extended its lead over ABC World News With Charles Gibson by nearly 600,000 viewers. The NBC newscast drew 8.17 million viewers, while the ABC newscast drew 7.51 million. Some writers suggested that the gap -- the two programs had been running neck-and-neck for more than a year -- might have been the result of viewer anger over Abc's handling of last week's Democratic presidential debate. message writers on blogs had posted such comments as: "We should all just erase George [Stephanopoulos] and Charlie [Gibson] and not just for a day but at least through the election;" "There's now no point in watching ABC news. Brian Williams, here I come!;" and "Fire these two scumbags! I will no longer watch ABC."

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