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23 July 2008 10:27 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

ABC and NBC wound up in a virtual tie for first place among the three nightly newscasts. Nielsen gave them an identical 5 rating and 11 share and noted that NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams averaged 7.23 million viewers, while ABC's World News With Charles Gibson drew 7.22 million. The difference was statistically insignificant. CBS Evening News with Katie Couric remained substantially behind with 5.5 million viewers.

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21 July 2008 10:30 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

CBS News President Sean McManus has again attempted to shoot down persistent reports that Katie Couric will step down as anchor of the CBS Evening News following the presidential election in November or the inauguration in January. Speaking by satellite to the Television Critics Association tour in Beverly Hills on Friday, McManus insisted that the reports were untrue and that Couric's departure was "not a topic of discussion" at the network. Couric herself told the reporters, "We have no plans to part company any time soon ... There were a lot of speculative pieces that got spun out of control." She said that the reports were all a bit "befuddling" to her and that she's glad to see that "it's all died down considerably."

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2 July 2008 10:37 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams remained the most-watched network evening newscast during the second quarter, averaging 8 million viewers each night, according to Nielsen Media Research. It edged out ABC's World News With Charles Gibson, which recorded 7.8 million viewers. Last year, the order was reversed. Meanwhile CBS Evening News With Katie Couric continued to lose viewers, averaging 5.6 million, down 528,000 viewers from the same quarter a year ago. If Couric was feeling depressed by the latest ratings news, they may have been lifted by the announcement that the Radio-Television News Directors Association had awarded her program the Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast.

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4 June 2008 10:41 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The ABC and NBC newscasts once again ended in a photo finish, with Nielsen giving a slight edge to ABC World News With Charles Gibson which, it said, attracted 7.66 million viewers, while NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams attracted 7.65 million viewers, a statistically insignificant difference. The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric remained well behind with 5.54 million viewers.

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29 May 2008 10:04 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Among the evening newscasts, NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams continued to lead with a 5.5 rating and a 12 share representing 8.1 million viewers -- a bigger audience than most of Nbc's primetime programs. ABC World News With Charles Gibson remained close behind with an identical 5.5/12 but with about 300,000 fewer viewers. CBS Evening News with Katie Couric set another record low with a 3.8/8, representing 5.33 million viewers.

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1 May 2008 10:34 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Hispanic civil rights groups are denouncing a recent report by the CBS Evening News With Katie Couric in which a woman, identified as an illegal immigrant who had just given birth to a child, was "lectured" by reporter Byron Pitts, who told her that "many Americans who struggle to take care of their own families think it is unfair that they should have to take care" of non-u.S. citizens. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Council of La Raza and the Asian American Justice Center were among the groups protesting against the feature. Writing in the influential Politico.com, veteran Washington D.C. journalist Gebe Martinez commented, "If CBS is playing to immigration hawks to boost its sagging ratings, the network risks being tuned out by the expanding Latino community. Advertisers know that by 2011, Hispanic buying power will total $1.2 trillion, almost 10 percent of all U.S. purchasing power." Martinez quoted Maldef attorney Peter Zamora as saying, "We are not going to be the victims of anti-immigrant reporting, and we are not going to sit by as the community is demonized." CBS News responded that it aimed "to do our best to listen to the many voices engaged in immigration issues, to produce fair and accurate stories and to bring national attention to this complicated topic."

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