nightly news

TV news analyst Andrew Tyndall tracks every minute of airtime spent by the three nightly network news broadcasts. So which stories garnered the most airtime on each network?

Talking about winners in the evening news game is a little like talking about the luckiest slot-machine addicts: the long-term odds do not work in their favor, no matter how far they're up at any given moment. But setting aside the quarter-century slide in aggregate audience, the succession of...

The generational shift in nightly news continues. Charles Gibson is stepping down as anchor of World News Tonight at the end of the year, yielding his role on the second place network news broadcast to Diane Sawyer, his former Good Morning America co-host. Gibson has anchored World News since May...