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10 October 2008 10:37 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

CBS said Thursday that it is showing striking gains with all of its news program during the first weeks of the new season. Last Sunday's 60 Minutes, it noted, drew 16.65 million viewers, making it overall the third-highest-rated show of the week. Ratings for Face the Nation were up 33 percent. 48 Hours Mystery saw a 16-percent increase and was the highest-rated show on the air Saturday night. CBS Evening News with Katie Couric saw a 5-percent increase in its ratings, as did The Early Show. By contrast NBC has yanked all of its primetime news programming after airing as many as five hours of Dateline programming weekly during the summer, and ABC has pulled off Primetime temporarily, leaving only 20/20 as its sole primetime news program during the week.

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1 October 2008 10:44 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Although Katie Couric's interview last week with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin generated enormous publicity for the CBS Evening News (including a sketch on Saturday Night Live in which comedienne Tina Fey employed Palin's verbatim responses to Couric's questions), the interview failed to boost the newscast's ratings significantly. According to Nielsen Media Research, the newscast drew slightly fewer than 6 million viewers, up from 5.44 million from the previous week, but down from 6.2 million from the same week a year ago. Speaking to the Associated Press on Tuesday, Couric said that the interview -- and ones this week with Congressional leaders on the economic crisis -- offered her a platform "to do what I excel at, which is talk to people and do interviews."

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17 September 2008 10:33 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

CBS News anchor Katie Couric has landed Sarah Palin's second major broadcast interview. The network said Tuesday that Couric's interview will take place on Sunday, Sept. 28 and Monday, Sept 29 and air the next day, on Monday and Tuesday, ahead of the vice-presidential debate later in the week. Meanwhile, tensions mounted between the McCain campaign and NBC/MSNBC after McCain, during a guest appearance, described Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski as "a supporter of Senator Obama." Brzezinski, clearly irritated by the remark, responded, "'Supporter of Senator Obama?' I'm not sure I would characterize myself that way." Brzezinski is the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as National Security Advisor in the Carter White House. But she pointed out that her brother Ian works for McCain's campaign. Also on Tuesday McCain's wife Cindy expressed outrage over the way she and her husband were treated on ABC's The View last week. "They picked our bones clean," she complained.

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25 August 2008 10:36 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Katie Couric is celebrating her second anniversary as anchor of the CBS Evening News. In an interview with the Baltimore Sun, Couric acknowledged, "It's been, quite candidly, pretty tough some of the time for me in my new job." Noting that her ratings are up in Baltimore and a few other mid-sized markets, Couric said, "To see us gaining and making strides in some of these major markets is wonderful news." Asked about persistent rumors that she plans to step down after the inauguration, Couric replied, "I have no plans to leave. I want to do the best job I possibly can for CBS News. I care about our newscast and my colleagues, and I have no plans to split."

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20 August 2008 10:39 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The nightly newscasts of the commercial networks are about to face competition from public television, which plans to launch its own nightly newscast titled Worldfocus on Oct. 6 that will focus on international news, the New York Times reported today (Wednesday). The newscast will be anchored by Martin Savidge, who is quitting his current job as a correspondent for NBC News, the newspaper said. In an interview with the Times, Savidge criticized the U.S. networks, including his own, for failing to report on major events abroad and show what they mean to Americans. In addition to Savidge, the program is hiring seasoned producers from the news divisions of the commercial networks. It will be exec-produced by Marc Rosenwasser, who spent 16 years at NBC News and went on to become a senior producer on the CBS Evening News.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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29 July 2008 10:16 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

For the first time, a network's coverage of the political parties' presidential nominating conventions will be headed by a woman. Katie Couric was named by CBS Monday to head the studio team covering the Democratic convention, which begins on August 26, and the Republican, which begins on Sept. 2. Other members of the studio team will include Bob Schieffer, who preceded Couric at the Evening News's anchor desk, and political correspondent Jeff Greenfield.

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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.

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21 July 2008 10:30 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

CBS News President Sean McManus has again attempted to shoot down persistent reports that Katie Couric will step down as anchor of the CBS Evening News following the presidential election in November or the inauguration in January. Speaking by satellite to the Television Critics Association tour in Beverly Hills on Friday, McManus insisted that the reports were untrue and that Couric's departure was "not a topic of discussion" at the network. Couric herself told the reporters, "We have no plans to part company any time soon ... There were a lot of speculative pieces that got spun out of control." She said that the reports were all a bit "befuddling" to her and that she's glad to see that "it's all died down considerably."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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1 May 2008 10:34 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Hispanic civil rights groups are denouncing a recent report by the CBS Evening News With Katie Couric in which a woman, identified as an illegal immigrant who had just given birth to a child, was "lectured" by reporter Byron Pitts, who told her that "many Americans who struggle to take care of their own families think it is unfair that they should have to take care" of non-u.S. citizens. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Council of La Raza and the Asian American Justice Center were among the groups protesting against the feature. Writing in the influential Politico.com, veteran Washington D.C. journalist Gebe Martinez commented, "If CBS is playing to immigration hawks to boost its sagging ratings, the network risks being tuned out by the expanding Latino community. Advertisers know that by 2011, Hispanic buying power will total $1.2 trillion, almost 10 percent of all U.S. purchasing power." Martinez quoted Maldef attorney Peter Zamora as saying, "We are not going to be the victims of anti-immigrant reporting, and we are not going to sit by as the community is demonized." CBS News responded that it aimed "to do our best to listen to the many voices engaged in immigration issues, to produce fair and accurate stories and to bring national attention to this complicated topic."

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