NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams was #1 in total viewers and the 25-54 demo last week.

ABC says NBC only won because of the multimedia manifesto broadcast on Wednesday. “Without Wednesday, when Nightly News broadcast contents of the package sent by Seung-Hui Cho, World News would have been #1 for the week,” the net says.

For the week of April 16:

Total viewers: NBC: 8,570,000 / ABC: 8,480,000 / CBS: 6,570,000

25-54 demo: NBC: 2.3/10 / ABC: 2.1/9 / CBS: 1.8/7

> Update: 12:37pm: NBC isn’t issuing a press release about ratings today: “In the wake of an incident like this, there is simply no place for competitive hyperbole,” an NBC insider says…