Evening News

Is the Media's ADD Hurting Our Country?

Abby Huntsman | Posted 05.13.2012

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Abby Huntsman

So, here we are: a world of commentators, Tweeters, bloggers, and citizens with one of the most powerful tools developed in the history of mankind (the Internet) at our fingertips, literally, but how do we plan to use it? And, what is our collective responsibility?

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Comcast's Evening News: A Giant Promo Machine

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.08.2012

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Richard Laermer

Walter Cronkite brought us the evening news for decades; we watched in awe. Uncle Walter packaged stories of import that made tens of millions stop, s...

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Evening Newscasts On The Rise Again

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 12.17.2011

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NEW YORK — There's new life in broadcast television's evening news shows, in part because of forces such as 24-hour cable news that were once th...

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SHOCKER: Evening News Ratings GROW

Posted 11.20.2011

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The 2010-2011 season just wrapped up and the results for evening newscasts are good. For the first time in nine years, all three major networks sa...

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David Muir Ratings Improve For ABC News

Posted 10.24.2011

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David Muir's ratings are going up at ABC News. Since Muir took over the weekend edition of "ABC World News" in February, the program has grown its...

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WATCH: CBS News Makes A Pretty Big Claim In New Ad

The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 10.11.2011

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CBS' new advertising campaign makes an audacious claim: that the network "invented original reporting on television." The 30-second commercial deb...

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CBS News Chief Takes Swipe At Katie Couric

Posted 10.03.2011

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CBS News chairman Jeff Fager had some rather unkind words for Katie Couric on Wednesday. Fager was at the Television Critics Association summer pre...

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Evening News Ratings Up Across The Board

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 09.12.2011

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NEW YORK — Viewership is up at the "CBS Evening News" since Scott Pelley took over as anchor in early June. Then again, the same can be said for...

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Sawyer, Williams Respond To Couric's Departure

Posted 06.27.2011

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Katie Couric's fellow evening news anchors reacted on Tuesday to the news that she is officially stepping down as the host of the "CBS Evening News." ...

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ALL-TIME LOW: Evening News Ratings Hit Collective Rock Bottom

Posted 05.25.2011

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By David Bauder, The Associated Press The NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts combined for a dubious record last week: the average of 18.7 million peo...

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Evening News Ratings DOWN Across The Board

Posted 05.25.2011

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All three network evening news broadcasts saw their ratings decline in the second quarter, the New York Times' Bill Carter notes. Both ABC and CBS sa...

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GOP Leaders Play Games While Oil Pours Into the Gulf

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mitchell Bard

We have real problems in the United States that have to be addressed. But how can we solve anything when too many political leaders are more interested in seizing on issues to score political points?

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Evening News Ratings: ABC, CBS See Worst Quarters Ever While NBC Thrives

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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The "CBS Evening News" and ABC's "World News" have just closed their worst quarter on record. The New York Times' Bill Carter takes a look at the fir...

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Max Kolonko | Posted 05.25.2011

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Max Kolonko

The hot head from Fort Collins reached his goal. We got a good show -- no complaints. Never mind the puking child.

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"NBC Nightly News" Easily Wins 2008-2009 Season, Up Year-Over-Year

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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While the conventional wisdom says the evening news is dying, "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" actually grew year-over-year, easily winning the ...

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"NBC Nightly News" Sees Best Ratings In Months

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" delivered its best week since April, averaging 8.379 million total viewers last week. Thursday night's broadca...

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"CBS Evening News," "ABC World News" Hit All Time Ratings Lows

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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Both the "CBS Evening News" and ABC's "World News" suffered all-time ratings lows last week, the week of June 15, 2009. Both broadcast's anchors &mda...

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For The Last Time, I'm Not Connie Chung

Kaity Tong | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kaity Tong

Let me set the record straight. Connie Chung is the one married to Maury Povich, not me. At least not since the last time I checked.

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"NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" On A Ratings Roll

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" handily won the evening news ratings race last week, beating ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" by over 1.2...

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Walters On TV News' Future: Only Programs 10 Years From Now Will Be The "Morning Shows"

Reuters | Paul J. Gough | Posted 05.25.2011

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A lot has changed in the "big get" TV interview business since ABC's Barbara Walters and "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft began. While the per...

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Evening News Ratings Up On Bad Economic News

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Tough economic news and the arrival of the Obama administration have helped bring more viewers to the broadcast evening news shows, a...

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Network Evening Newscasts' Ratings Stall During Election 2008

Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 05.25.2011

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If anything could slow the inexorable decline of evening news viewership, it should have been this year's riveting presidential campaign, which produc...

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NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams Wins Its 12th Season In A Row

Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 05.25.2011

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"NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" ended the 2007-08 television season as the most-watched network evening newscast for the 12th year in a row, ex...

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Vanity Fair Launches News And Late-Night Watching Project

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vanity Fair launched two new features today on their ever-growing blog, VF Daily: first, a measure of the minutes each of the three network newscasts ...

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Tom Brokaw: I Tried To Warn Couric It Was "Harder Than It Looks"

Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earlier this week Dan Rather told the Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar that he didn't think Katie Couric had "any idea what she was getting into" when s...

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