ABC evening news gets boost from Diane Sawyer


By Nellie Andreeva
30 December 2009 @ 11:23 am EDT

REUTERS
REUTERS

ABC's "World News" has held steady under new anchor Diane Sawyer.

In its first three days on the air last week, "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" averaged 8.6 million total viewers, up six percent from the newscast's season-to-date average under Sawyer's predecessor Charles Gibson.

Sawyer also increased the viewership gap over CBS' third-ranked "Evening News with Katie Couric" (6.2 million) to its largest size in 11 months.

NBC's "Nightly News with Brian Williams" (9.4 million) remains the broadcast news leader.

Thursday and Friday were excluded from the networks' tallies because of the Christmas holiday and preemptions.

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