Evening Newscasts On The Rise Again
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...
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...
Posted 11.20.2011
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...
Posted 10.03.2011
CBS News chairman Jeff Fager had some rather unkind words for Katie Couric on Wednesday. Fager was at the Television Critics Association summer pre...
Posted 05.29.2011
With the drumbeat of rumors that she is heading for the door, Katie Couric was likely looking for better ratings news than what she got Tuesday. Inste...
Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Ed Madison | Posted 05.25.2011
The Project for Excellence in Journalism reports that Jon Stewart is America's fourth most admired "journalist". Local broadcasters need to take note.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011
In one of the bigger news weeks this fall, with the the health care debate, the 2009 elections and the breaking news out of Fort Hood, Fox News and "N...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011
While the conventional wisdom says the evening news is dying, "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" actually grew year-over-year, easily winning the ...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011
"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" delivered its best week since April, averaging 8.379 million total viewers last week. Thursday night's broadca...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011
"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...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Tough economic news and the arrival of the Obama administration have helped bring more viewers to the broadcast evening news shows, a...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — After two years of relentlessly bad ratings news, Katie Couric finally has something she can smile about. The "CBS Evening News" anc...
Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 05.25.2011
If anything could slow the inexorable decline of evening news viewership, it should have been this year's riveting presidential campaign, which produc...
Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 05.25.2011
"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...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 05.25.2011
"NBC Nightly News," with the anchor Brian Williams in Beijing, received an Olympics bounce of two million viewers last week. Bolstered by above-avera...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, the week of May 19, CBS News set a new record low in ratings, taking in a mere 5.33 million viewers. Its previous record low came the week...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, the CBS Evening News marked a new low in the ratings, recording just 5.39 million total viewers for the previous week. This week, the Kati...
New York Post | Posted 05.25.2011
AS Katie Couric puts a wrap on her first calendar year as anchor of the last-place "CBS Evening News," she's staring at some sobering stats: more than...
New York Times | Jacques Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011
"NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" narrowly overtook "World News With Charles Gibson" on ABC to become the most-watched of the three network eveni...
TV Newser | Chris Ariens | Posted 05.25.2011
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams wins the week in total viewers and the A25-54 demo. Some holiday week notes: Thanksgiving Day is taken out of the...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 12.17.2011