NEW YORK, July 4 (UPI) -- ABC News' "World News" won its first quarter in more than a decade as anchor Charles Gibson topped NBC's Brian Williams in the U.S. evening news ratings.
For the April-May-June period, "World News with Charles Gibson" averaged 8 million viewers, NBC's "Nightly News with Brian Williams" drew 7.5 million and CBS' "Evening News with Katie Couric" pulled 6.1 million, Variety reported Tuesday.
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The ABC evening newscast was the only one to increase viewers during the period, showing an increase of 7 percent. NBC's news viewership fell 4 percent while CBS dropped 9 percent.
