“Charlie Edges Closer” In The Evenings

“In the four weeks since” the night of the November midterm elections, ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson “has been nipping at longtime leader NBC Nightly News in total viewers, and it even looks as though Gibson could pull ahead of Brian Williams,” Media Life Magazine says.

Toni Fitzgerald writes: “Gibson’s recent rise has a tinge of irony to it as well. When he was named anchor last May, 10 months after Peter Jennings‘ death and with World News ratings in a decline, many media observers said he was the wrong pick. They chastised ABC for not choosing a younger person who could redefine the evening newscast, as CBS later attempted with Couric. But these months later, the 63-year-old Gibson is actually in a closer competitive position to NBC than Jennings was at the same point two years ago…”