NBC Falling Behind in Evening News Race
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By Bill Carter and Jacques Steinberg  NBC's dominance in television's evening news race is undergoing its most serious challenge in a decade as "World News" on ABC scored its second ratings victory in the last three weeks.
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NBC dominated primetime  Tuesday with "The Biggest Loser" and "Law & Order: SVU," while  CBS' strike-impacted, pretaped People's Choice Awards hit an  all-time low.
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NEW YORK  - The Olympics bulldozed the  rest of the network primetime summer fare Sunday, delivering an  average 25.6 million viewers to NBC.
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NBC, struggling through its first  season without powerhouse sitcom "Friends," has fallen to third  place in the ratings for its target audience and could slip to  No. 4, the network's top executive acknowledged on Friday.
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Television viewers welcomed late-night hosts with open arms for their first night back at work in two months because of a writers strike. Jay Leno's "Tonight" show on NBC was seen by 7.2 million viewers, or 43 percent more than what he had been averaging this season before the strike took him off the air Nov. 5, according to national ratings supplied by Nielsen Media Research.
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NBC is adding a 5-second delay to its NASCAR telecasts after Dale Earnhardt Jr. used a vulgarity during a postrace TV interview last weekend.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - &quot;NBC Nightly News&quot; maintained its ratings lead on Brian Williams&#39; first night as the telecast&#39;s new anchor and managing editor following Tom Brokaw&#39;s tenure of more than 20 years, NBC said Friday.
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A nightly news summary is to be launched at 8pm to bridge the gap between the Six and 10 O'Clock News shows.
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With the Redskins hosting the Ravens, and the Nationals and Orioles both playing night games, the Washington-Baltimore region has more sporting events tonight than its television networks can handle.
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ABC's red-hot Sunday lineup put a serious ratings dent in NBC's marquee awards show, the Golden Globes, but NBC nevertheless won the week of Jan. 10 among adults 18-49 by a slim margin.
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NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff  Zucker has said the General Electric Co.-owned media group was  constrained from matching News Corp.&#39;s $5 billion bid for Dow  Jones & Co. Inc. due to the size of the premium.
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News Item: The major television networks have cut back their live coverage of the Republican and Democratic national conventions to just one prime-time hour a night.
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Minus "Friends" or any big breakout hits, NBC has stumbled out of the starting gate this TV season. The once proud peacock lost again last week in the only ratings battle it cares about, among the 18-to-49-year-old demographic that advertisers seek, Nielsen Media Research said Tuesday.
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Olympic laurels. NBC swept the Nielsen ratings medals, with its first three nights of coverage in Athens taking the top three prime-time spots last week (Aug. 9-15) in viewers and advertiser-coveted young adults. The surge ...
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By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - The executive producer of NBC's "Nightly News" with Brian Williams is being replaced three weeks after ABC overtook the show in the ratings.
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A look at NBC's coverage of the Summer Olympics from Athens:
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Diminished interest in early-season shows, including "The Apprentice," has NBC questioning its strategy of starting its season early.