“NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” won the evening news race last week, with a 1 million+ Total Viewer lead over #2 “World News with Diane Sawyer.”
“Nightly” and “World News” were up in Total Viewers compared the same week last year, while the “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric,” in its penultimate week on the air, was down year-over-year.
Numbers for the week of May 9:
| NBC | ABC | CBS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| • Total Viewers: | 8,661,000 | 7,546,000 | 5,494,000 |
| • A25-54: | 2,465,000 | 1,914,000 | 1,689,000 |