"It surely wasn't what CBS dreamed about when Katie Couric was hired: the CBS Evening News last week recorded its smallest audience since 1987, and probably many years before that," the AP reports. "It also didn't help that the average of 6.05 million viewers came at the beginning of the important May ratings 'sweeps.'"

More: "Meanwhile, ABC's World News recorded its widest advantage in viewership over NBC's Nightly News since the week Peter Jennings died in August 2005..."

> Update: 10:06am: And right after I post this, I see that FTVLive is running the same headline...