With Charles Gibson taking his first vacation in ten months and Brian Williams anchoring from Iraq, Nightly News was #1 by 50,000 total viewers last week.

World News was #1 in the 25-54 demo, beating Nightly News by 190,000 demo viewers.

For the week of March 5:

Total viewers: NBC: 8,990,000 / NBC: 8,940,000 / CBS: 7,000,000

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

25-54 viewers: NBC: 2,610,000 / ABC: 2,800,000 / CBS: 2,190,000