"As Brian Williams completes his first year as anchor this week, he can take comfort that NBC's 'Nightly News' has lately widened its lead in the ratings," David Bauder writes.

"Five of the past six weeks, NBC's margin over second-place World News Tonight on ABC has exceeded one million viewers. That only happened twice in the previous 29 weeks, not once during the period between Peter Jennings' April announcement that he had cancer and his death on Aug. 7, according to Nielsen Media Research."

"I think the fact that we're stable and the other two guys aren't as stable clearly helps us," EP John Reiss says...