Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News, Get Beijing Bounce

"NBC Nightly News," with the anchor Brian Williams in Beijing, received an Olympics bounce of two million viewers last week.

Bolstered by above-average ratings for NBC during the Games, "Nightly" attracted 9.4 million viewers for the week of August 11, up from an average of 7.35 million viewers for the month of July. ABC's "World News" averaged 6.9 million viewers and the "CBS Evening News" averaged 5.6 million.

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[NoSillyName]

No bounce here. I'm sick of the "All Olympics, All the Time" network.

Being media deprived, I only get CBS and NBC evening news. Usually I barely pay attention to CBS (the "Couric Bull Sh*t" newscast) and watch NBC with more attention. Not Now!! The Russia/Georgia conflict? Not mentioned until after the Olympics and the Edwards affair.

The saving grace is PBS, my only other station. "The News Hour" and "BBC Nightly News".

I don't miss NBC's regular evening line-up because there's not much to miss, but having the Olympics on from early morning till late at night has me turned off.

[uclafan]

NBC stop with the coverage on ALL of your stations. I am tired of not having a choice!