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13 articles from 2008
Cable News Audiences Go Through Slow Withdrawal
19 November 2008 1:31 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news
The presidential election may have been held the previous week, but cable news outlets were continuing to draw relatively large audiences last week, with Fox News Channel finishing as the third most-watched cable channel, behind ESPN and USA. CNN placed 10th and MSNBC, 11th. Moreover, MSNBC's Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough beat CNN's American Morning for the first time. (Fox & Friends continued to hold the lead.) Among the major networks' nightly newscasts, NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams topped ABC World News With Charles Gibson for the fifth consecutive week. The NBC newscast drew 9.30 million viewers; the ABC newscast, 8.90 million. CBS Evening News With Katie Couric again trailed with 6.66 million viewers.
Critics Say Palin Dodged Gibson's Questions
12 September 2008 10:41 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news
Sarah Palin's interview with Charles Gibson on ABC World News did not receive the same kind of praise from critics that her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention did two weeks ago. Palin, critics said, seemed determined to respond to Gibson's questions with her own prepared remarks, avoiding direct responses to his questions. "I got lost in a blizzard of words there. Is that a yes?" Gibson asked her at one point. In the New York Times, Alessandra Stanley wrote, "At times, her eyes looked uncertain and her voice hesitated, and she looked like a student trying to bend prepared answers to fit unexpected questions." David Hinckley in the New York Daily News wrote that Palin "was composed and forceful even when she was clearly scrambling to bring a question back into her message zone." Meanwhile, a group called the Political Fish has set up a website, www.palinpetition.com, where Republicans are asked to sign a petition urging Oprah Winfrey to interview Palin before the election. Winfrey, who has announced her support for Barack Obama, has said that she has decided "not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates." Meanwhile, the website TMZ claimed that Barbara Walters "lost" the Palin interview to Gibson. Collared by a TMZ cameraman in New York and asked to comment on Gibson's "get," Walters said, "That's wonderful" but refused further comment.
Palin Gets Widespread Exposure On ABC
11 September 2008 10:33 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news
Charles Gibson's interview with Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, will receive unprecedented exposure on ABC tonight (Thursday) and tomorrow, with segments of the interview airing on ABC World News and Nightline tonight and on Good Morning America and 20/20 Friday night. The Palin campaign set the timing for the interview, which takes place on the same day her son Track is deployed to Iraq.
ABC News Producer Says Gibson Won't Go Easy On Palin
9 September 2008 10:34 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news
ABC World News producer Jon Banner insisted in an interview with the Associated Press on Monday that no issue is off the table when Charles Gibson interviews Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin in Alaska later this week. He was presumably referring to the matter of Palin's pregnant and unmarried teenage daughter and a report by the National Enquirer that Palin had had an affair (an allegation denounced as a vicious lie by the McCain campaign). Both issues had initially been ignored by the mainstream media. Meanwhile speculation arose that Gibson had been chosen because McCain aides had concluded that CBS's Katie Couric would likely be combative in an interview with Palin and that they had regarded NBC as biased in favor of the Democrats. Some conservatives were skeptical about Gibson, however. On the conservative website Newsbusters, operated by Brent Bozell's Media Research Center, commentator Tim Graham asked whether Gibson will "go easy [on Palin], like on Obama?"
Obama's Convention Opens Tonight
25 August 2008 10:36 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news
The Democratic National Convention is due to open tonight (Monday), but with Barack Obama already established as the party's presidential nominee and Joe Biden it's vice-presidential, some writers were asking whether the convention -- as well as the upcoming Republican one -- doesn't merely amount to a political infomercial. Others were questioning the need for a political convention at all. Drama was building over whether ailing Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy would attend tonight's (Monday) session. The Boston Herald quoted his son Patrick as saying that his father wants to attend a planned tribute that is to be staged for him tonight. Meanwhile, ABC News is using the convention to launch the expansion of its news programming into HDTV. Not only will it carry the conventions in HDTV, but also its World News With Charles Gibson, Nightline, Primetime and 20/20.
NBC News Rides Olympics' Coattails
20 August 2008 10:39 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news
The huge audience tuning in for the Beijing Olympics has given a boost to NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams, which precedes it in primetime in many markets. After ordinarily running neck-and-neck with (and often being beaten by) ABC's World News With Charles Gibson, the NBC newscast pulled far out in front last week with an average of 9.4 million viewers to ABC's 6.9 million. CBS's numbers appeared unaffected. CBS Evening News With Katie Couric remained a distant third with 5.6 million viewers, which is about its average weekly figure.
Colbert, Stewart Audiences Smart; Couric's Not So
18 August 2008 10:26 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news
The overwhelming majority of people who watch cable and broadcast newscasts and topical variety shows are unable to identify the party that now controls Congress, name the current secretary of state, and name Britain's new prime minister, according to the new Pew Survey on News Consumption. The national average for answering those three questions is only 18 percent, the study found; only 10 percent among viewers of the CBS Evening News With Katie Couric, by far the lowest ranked among the nightly news programs. The survey said that 21 percent of the viewers of NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams could answer the questions; 19 percent of the viewers of ABC World News with Charles Gibson could. Ranking higher than any of the nightly newscasts, however, were Comedy Central's The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with 34 percent and 30 percent respectively.
Tight Race Continues Among Nightly Newscasts
30 July 2008 10:26 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news
Among the network nightly newscasts, NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams remained in the lead with 7.31 million viewers, once again edging out ABC's World News with Charles Gibson, which captured 7.17 million viewers. CBS Evening News with Katie Couric continued to trail with 5.60 million viewers.
Williams, Gibson, Run Neck-and-Neck
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.
NBC Nightly News Overtakes ABC's World News
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.
Network Newscasts In Dead Heat
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.
Last-Rated Network First With Nightly News
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.
Couric's Newscast Falls To New Low
23 April 2008 10:20 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news
While CBS News executives continue to point out that it took Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings a long time to climb to the top of the ratings, the latest Nielsen results show Katie Couric climbing in the wrong direction. In fact, her numbers fell to a record low as she averaged just 5.39 million viewers last week. It was not a good day for Couric Tuesday. Besides learning about her falling ratings, she also learned that the North Carolina debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, which she had been tapped to moderate, had been called off. And, in apparent response to rumors that Couric was hoping to jump to CNN and replace Larry King if she left CBS, CNN announced that it had extended King's contract through 2010. Meanwhile, NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams extended its lead over ABC World News With Charles Gibson by nearly 600,000 viewers. The NBC newscast drew 8.17 million viewers, while the ABC newscast drew 7.51 million. Some writers suggested that the gap -- the two programs had been running neck-and-neck for more than a year -- might have been the result of viewer anger over Abc's handling of last week's Democratic presidential debate. message writers on blogs had posted such comments as: "We should all just erase George [Stephanopoulos] and Charlie [Gibson] and not just for a day but at least through the election;" "There's now no point in watching ABC news. Brian Williams, here I come!;" and "Fire these two scumbags! I will no longer watch ABC."
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