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Williams to Receive Cronkite Award

source: mediabistro.com

•Arizona State University will present NBC "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams with its 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism this Wednesday. CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric also won an award named for Cronkite this year. New Career Opportunities Daily: The b...

Published Sun, Nov 15

Fox News, "NBC Nightly News" Win Big News Week

source: Huffington Post

On the networks, "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" averaged 9.469 million total viewers, its best week since the week of February 16, 2009. ABC's "World News" with Charles Gibson averaged 8.380 million total viewers, while the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" averaged 6.204 milli...

Published Wed, Nov 11

Memorial Service in Fort Hood, Texas

source: mediabistro.com

MSNBC simulcasts the NBC broadcast, which began at 2pmET and is anchored by Brian Williams. Fox Business Network is also carrying the memorial. Update: Before signing off, Gibson apologized for earlier referring to President Obama as "President Bush."

Published Tue, Nov 10

Cablers Cover Shooting at Fort Hood

source: mediabistro.com

gt;Update: At 4:49pmET Brian Williams began anchoring what would be a 20-minute special report for NBC stations which included remarks from Pres. Obama. CBS' Couric and ABC's Gibson also anchored special coverage of Obama's remarks.

Published Thu, Nov 5

Schieffer Absolves Obama, Throws Losing Dems Under Bus: Just Bad Candidates

source: NewsBusters.org

On NBC, Brian Williams painted the election results as “an ominous development for the-year-old Obama administration” and attributed the outcomes to how “there is evidence of an angry electorate out there.” Gibson led the Wednesday, November 4 World News on ABC:

Published Wed, Nov 4

Evening News Ratings: Week of Oct. 26

source: mediabistro.com

NBC "Nightly News" was again #1 last week as Brian Williams anchored the newscast for several days from Afghanistan. "Nightly" added 220K Total Viewers week-to-week. ABC's "World News" also increased week-to-week, adding 260K Total Viewers. NBC and ABC also added viewers in the demo. The...

Published Tue, Nov 3

Evening News Ratings: Week of Oct. 5

source: mediabistro.com

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams had a 780K Total Viewer lead over #2 World News with Charles Gibson, while Gibson's program topped #2 CBS Evening News with Katie Couric by more than 2 million Total Viewers. Couric's broadcast, which was down 400K viewers from the week prior, devoted m...

Published Tue, Oct 13

Don Imus Back On TV, Defends New Fox Family

source: Huffington Post

The perception is that even their news is skewed toward opinion -- not when I watch it. It's a fair news organization. It's not my job to defend them. But I'm more likely to believe Shep Smith than Katie Couric or Brian Williams. Their news is advertiser-driven."

Published Mon, Oct 5