“Television news ratings soared last week as the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina unfolded on the air, with NBC’s Brian Williams a prime beneficiary,” the AP recaps.
BW’s Nightly News averaged 10.6 million viewers last week — “31 percent more than the previous week, and enough to have put the nightly news in Nielsen’s top 10 if it had been a prime-time program.” World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News experienced gains of 21 percent and 20 percent respectively.
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