Pelley Continues to Pick Up Viewers

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The CBS Evening News is still sitting in third place, but they are (and have been) heading in the right direction.​

The brodcast anchored by Scott Pelley added 680,000 viewers (6.41m from 5.73m, +12%), the largest year-to-year viewer gain among the network evening news broadcasts.

The newscast also posted double-digit year-to-year percentage increases among households (4.4/09 from 4.0/08, +10%) for the week ending May 10.

Season-to-date, the CBS Evening News continues to be the only network evening news broadcast to post increases among adults 25-54 (1.6/06 from 1.5/06, +7%) – the demographic most important to those who advertise in News – compared to last year.

Season-to-date, the CBS broadcast posted the largest gains among the network evening news broadcasts in viewers (6.75m from 6.25m, +8%) and households (4.6/09 from 4.2/08, +10%) compared to last year.

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