[Does this mean NO ONE watches FoxNews?]

Drudge Report

[Grendel9]

'NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS' PULLS AHEAD; WIDENS THE GAP OVER ABC TO 1.4 MILLION VIEWERS Tue Nov 15 2005 14:22:15 ET

"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" had a big ratings win last week, topping ABC's "World News Tonight" by a 16% or +1.390 million viewers - representing the program's best advantage over ABC since the week of the Brokaw/Williams anchor transition (November 29, 2004).

For the week of November 7 - 11, 2005, "Nightly News" attracted an impressive 10.172 million total viewers, ABC placed a distant second with 8.782 million and CBS' "Evening News" closed in on ABC with 8.069 million viewers.

This also represents "Nightly's" best delivery in total viewers since the week of August 29, 2005 (Hurricane Katrina) and excluding that week, the broadcast's best delivery since the week of February 28, 2005. "Nightly News" has now placed first in total viewers for 70 of the last 71 weeks.

Impacting...

[drjimmy]

Channel 68, Syracuse,NY and Channel 31, Rochester,NY at 10:00pm. Every night.

That's not the Fox News Channel. Those are local Fox affiliates that do newscasts. It's the same thing as the newscast by Syracuse Channel 3, an affiliate of NBC.

[RetiredArmy]

Roger that.

[flashbunny]

ok - I was just trying to clarify. If somebody was rebroadcasting britt hume on the air, I wanted to know about it so my local station could do it too!

One of the things fox really needs to do is to get out a 1/2 hour nightly show for its broadcast affilliates, so the rest of america can have an alternative to the networks.

[Bigh4u2]

"One of the things fox really needs to do is to get out a 1/2 hour nightly show for its broadcast affilliates, so the rest of america can have an alternative to the networks."

I agree.

They do have a show on Sundays tho similar to the LSM's. But I don't watch TV much on Sunday.

[jdm]

Observation (for what it's worth): MSNBC shows the same thing as any local NBC station at 6:30, Monday through Friday -- and that's "NBC Nightly News." This is why Williams' numbers are up. If there was an MSABC or MSCBS you'd see a similar movement north.

If I double-posted every time I clicked "post," my post count would increase too. Not the best analogy, but an idea, suggestion as to why NBC is on top.