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• Nets in 'News' war.(National Broadcasting Company Inc., American Broadcasting Companies Inc.)(market share of television news, "Nightly News With Brian Williams")(Brief article)

  - 2007-03-14

  NBC's Brian Williams took the total-viewers crown last week in the increasingly see-saw race for evening news supremacy. NBC's "Nightly News With Brian Williams" was again the most-watched newscast, but by a thin, 44,000-viewer margin. ABC's "World News" had won in...

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• NBC losing ground on news front.(TELEVISION)(National Broadcasting Company Inc.)

  - 2007-03-05

  NBC's vaunted news division is starting to show some uncharacteristic cracks. Once lauded as unassailable No. 1 franchises, "Nightly News" and "Today" are experiencing audience erosion this season, a cause for increasing alarm at 30 Rock. ...

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• 'Nightly News' slip costs Reiss his job.(John Reiss resigns from National Broadcasting Company Inc. NBC News )(Brief article)

  - 2007-03-02

  NBC News is reassigning "Nightly News" executive producer John Reiss after a ratings slip that put Brian Williams in a dogfight with ABC's Charles Gibson for first place. Reiss' last day will be Friday. His deputy, senior broadcast producer Bob Epstein,...

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• NBC Sunday has post-NFL hangover.(TELEVISION)(National Broadcasting Company Inc., National Football League)

  - 2007-02-12

  Football is over for NBC, and the net's new Sunday night game plan hasn't exactly found the Nielsen end zone. One of the down sides to airing a primetime football series--as ABC learned over 35-plus years on Monday nights--is that the audience...

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• Prime week for NBC, CBS.(National Broadcasting Company Inc., CBS Broadcasting Inc.)

  - 2006-12-13

  With ABC's top shows on the bench or in repeats last week, NBC and CBS dominated the primetime program rankings. The Peacock and Eye nets each claimed five of the week's top 12 programs in the adults 18-49 demo, with Fox and...

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• Gameshow 'Heroes' to NBC's rescue.(National Broadcasting Company Inc.)

  - 2006-12-04

  Though ABC and CBS have gotten most of the headlines this fall, NBC has quietly put pieces together. Sure, the new Sunday night NFL package is responsible for much of its ratings growth, but the net's Monday drama "Heroes" is the...

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• Alphabet rivals get a break: net holds onto sweeps lead.(National Broadcasting Company Inc. and CBS Broadcasting Inc. benefit from low opening of ABC's "Day Break")

  - 2006-11-17

  ABC is halfway home to a November sweeps demo victory but left the door open for CBS--and perhaps even NBC--after the Alphabet's "Day Break" opened to nothing-special scores. The Taye Diggs drama did OK coming out of the "Dancing With the Stars"...

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• Vote of confidence for NBC.(National Broadcasting Company Inc)(Brief article)

  - 2006-11-15

  Election week was very good to NBC's front-running "Nightly News," while CBS' third-place "Evening News" sagged. For the first time since Katie Couric assumed the "Evening News" anchor's chair in early September, the Eye newscast came in below its audience...

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• NBC gets a kick out of Sunday football.(National Broadcasting Company Inc.)

  - 2006-11-08

  The highest-rated primetime football game of the television season put NBC in the Nielsen end zone for the first time last week, with the Peacock holding off ABC and CBS for the lead among young adults. Fox, on the other hand, ran...

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• ABC Dramas Divine; NBC Shows Surprise; Hours Win Nights Despite Dropping.(TV Currents)(American Broadcasting Companies Inc.)(National Broadcasting Company Inc.)

  - 2006-10-23

  Byline: James Hibberd ABC continued to perform with its stable of dramas last week, while most of the ratings surprises belonged to NBC. Starting Friday, Oct. 13, NBC surprised even itself with the performance of "1 vs. 100,'' a new game show...

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