Sure, CBS and ABC evening newscasts also were up, across the board, week to week. But ABC and CBS newscasts didn't have to pull their anchors while the network investigates disputed claims he's made over the years. The NBC broadcast, ably anchored by Lester Holt since NBC News suspended Williams for just that, averaged more than 10 million viewers for the fourth time this season. In fact, Nightly is the only evening news program to surpass 10 million viewers during a broadcast week in the past eight years.

That said, ABC News' World News Tonight With David Muir ranked as the No. 1 evening newscast in the all-important news demo (2.571 million) during the week, based on Live+Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research.