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Exactly how long has Brian Williams' account of being under fire in Iraq in 2003 been going on and how wide does the story go at NBC News? A 2004 book by a military mom indicates that the version of events perpetuated by Williams up until yesterday started soon after the alleged RPG attack on a chopper he was riding…

UPDATE, 4 PM: Regarding his 2003 coverage of the Iraq invasion, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams said this evening that “on this broadcast last week, in an effort to honor and thank a veteran who protected me and so many others after a ground-fire incident in the desert during the Iraq War invasion, I made a…

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams logged its second consecutive month on top in the ratings, both in overall audience and the news demo. Nightly topped ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir by an average of 219,000 news-demo viewers in January. Season-to-date, Nightly is the No. 1 evening news program in total…

NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams clocked its biggest overall audience in six weeks and its biggest advantage over ABC World News With Diane Sawyer in more than three months. Williams' newscast (8.44 million) topped Sawyer’s (7.27 million) and CBS’ Scott Pelley-anchored newscast (6.05 million) last week.  In the…

Broadcast from Sochi, NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams beat its first-week total-viewer averages during the Olympics in London, Vancouver, Beijing and Torino. It was the newscast's biggest overall audience since the week of January 3, 2005. Versus the comparable week at the  Winter Games in Vancouver in ’10…

Following a report on North Koreans "living in the midst of a modern-day Hitler” (Kim Jon-un), a report on a plane hijacking, and another on today’s American results from Sochi, NBC Nightly News turned over a chunk of tonight’s broadcast to a plug for the launch of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. During the…

UPDATE, 12:05 PM: NBC added weekend stats to its Olympics-fueled evening-news ratings victory lap. Nearly 16 million viewers tuned in to NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams on Sunday; 11 million tuned in on Saturday as Williams anchored live from Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia. In the news demo, the broadcast clocked…