Evening News

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Max Kolonko | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media


Max Kolonko

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

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

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media


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

"NBC Nightly News" Sees Best Ratings In Months

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media


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

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

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media


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...

For The Last Time, I'm Not Connie Chung

Kaity Tong | Posted 07.23.2009 | New York


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.

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

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media


"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...

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

Reuters | Paul J. Gough | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media


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...

Evening News Ratings Up On Bad Economic News

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 03.07.2009 | Media


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

Network Evening Newscasts' Ratings Stall During Election 2008

Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media


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

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

Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 10.25.2008 | Media


"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...

Vanity Fair Launches News And Late-Night Watching Project

Huffington Post | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media


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 ...

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

Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 04.25.2008 | Media


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...

Despite Dwindling Ratings, Evening Newscasts Remain Profitable

Business Week | Jon Fine | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Does any media form seem quainter than the network's evening newscasts? The entire exercise is suffused with the scent of the long-ago. Its better day...

ABC News Retools Its Evening Newscast For The Digital Age

New York Times | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Huddled with a producer in an editing suite on a recent Friday afternoon, the ABC News correspondent Bill Blakemore enthusiastically helped put the fi...