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Updated with President Obama’s remarks and update on victims: Brian Williams made his real return to TV news this afternoon anchoring MSNBC's live coverage of the country’s latest mass shooting at a school, this time at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, OR. Sure, Williams had anchored large swaths of MSNBC’s Pope…

NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt snagged its fourth straight across-the-board weekly ratings win. The newscast has won four straight weeks in total viewers, the 25-54 news demographic, and viewers aged 18-49. Nightly has led its broadcast competitors in all three metrics since Holt was named permanent anchor, after…

Some good news for Brian Williams  – he won the ratings race last week among evening newscasters, in overall audience and in the all-important news demo, even though his Wednesday broadcast included an apology for story fabrication, and his Friday newscast followed NBC's announcement it was looking into whether he'd…

NBC’s Brian Williams celebrated his third straight week — and fifth week of the most recent seven —  as top-rated evening anchor in the news demo. The week of December 15-19 also marked NBC Nightly News’ 275th consecutive week at No. 1 in overall audience, with its biggest total viewer advantage in fourth months over…

Scott Pelley was the only evening news anchor on the ground in Havana tonight, after President Obama announced he would move to normalize relations with <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/cuba/" id="auto-tag_cuba"…

The end of daylight-saving time and the midterm elections were ratings gifts for broadcast TV evening newscasts. Especially happy are the folks at NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams, which returned to the top spot in the news demo after ceding that seat for 11 weeks to ABC's World News Tonight With David Muir. In…

For the first time in seven years, ABC's World News Tonight is the top evening newscast in the news demo, season to date. The David Muir-anchored newscast is top-rated in the demo for the first five weeks of the season and is up in the age bracket every week of this season, compared to same time last year. NBC Nightly…

ABC’s World News Tonight won the week of September 29 with total viewers, in the news-demo, and among 18-49 year olds — the first time the newscast has pulled that off since 2008. Among overall audience, it was the ABC newscast’s first win in 264 weeks — snapping NBC Nightly News's 263-week winning streak. It was…

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…

NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams turned around the demo gap week-to-week to top ABC World News With Diane Sawyer in all key categories last week.  Nightly logged 8.249 million viewers – 647,000 more than ABC (7.602 million) and 1.98 million more than CBS Evening News (6.281 million). In the news demo, Nightly…

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…

CBS's evening newscast averaged more overall viewers on Wednesday and Thursday nights of last week, and in the news demo on Wednesday.  Last time that happened it was September of '06 and Katie Couric was in her first few weeks anchoring CBS's newscast. CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley  added nearly a million…