“Brian Is Back Where God Wanted Him To Be, At No. 1″

…That’s Bob Wright‘s joke. “After two weeks of victories for CBS and new anchor Katie Couric, NBC’s evening newscast returned to first place in viewership last week,” Paul Gough reports. (Here’s the data.)

Final numbers for the “suddenly supercharged network evening-news derby” will be out today, the AP notes…

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