The Washington DC bureau for CBS News has been evacuated due to a suspicious package. We hear that staffers working in the building on M Street were told to congregate in an area nearby, where they are apparently holding now.

Journalists that they are, some staffers have been documenting the evacuation with photos and video (spot the anchor in the Vine below):

We will let you know what happens with the evacuation.

Update: The staff have been given the “all clear” to return to work.

The three evening newscasts finished the week of June 10 in typical fashion with “NBC Nightly News” on top, followed by “ABC World News” and then the “CBS Evening News.”

But in atypical fashion, many of the broadcasts did not count toward the average due to preemptions. NBC’s weekly average is based on just two days (Monday-Tuesday) because of the Stanley Cup finals and U.S. Open. ABC’s weekly average is based on three days (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) due to the NBA Finals. Only CBS’s weekly average is based on five days.

With these preemptions in mind, compared to the same week last year, NBC was up, ABC was down and CBS was split: up in viewers and down in the demo.

Numbers for the week of June 10, 2013:

HLN’s telecast of the 40th Daytime Emmy Awards Sunday night pushed the network to #1 in primetime in total viewers and second, to MSNBC, in the A25-54 demo among the cable news networks.

The broadcast was down over last year’s event, which also aired on HLN on a Saturday night. The 8pm hour drew 794,000 total viewers and 194,000 demo viewers: down -8% and -35%, respectively. The second hour grew from the first. 972,000 total viewers watched, up +2% vs. last year while demo viewership for the second hour averaged 208,000, down -41% from last year.

The telecast aired live from 8pmET – 10:35pm at which point a re-air began. The 10pm hour drew 805,000 total viewers and 223,000 in the demo.

• Primetime (8-11pET), Sun., June 16.
  A25-54 Demo / Total Viewers

MSNBC – 218,000 / 401,000
HLN  – 208,000 / 857,000
FNC – 127,000 / 738,000
CNN – 97,000 / 304,000

CBS News’ “CBS This Morning” has named Ryan Kadro senior broadcast producer. Kadro joined “CTM” as a senior producer when it launched, having worked previously at “The Early Show.”

“Over the past year and a half, he has built one of the best feature tape units in the business, overseen the successful new 8a format and been a vital editorial voice in the control room,” wrote “CTM” EP Chris Licht in an email to staff. “Ryan is also a natural and trusted news room leader who staffers seek out for advice on everything from scripts to restaurant recommendations.”

Kadro will now be Licht’s number two on the broadcast. In January, Tom Mazzarelli left as “CTM’”s senior broadcast producer, while Brian Applegate, who succeeded Mazzarelli, left to oversee ‘CBS This Morning Saturday” in May.

Licht’s note is below.
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CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson appeared on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” last night to talk about her computer being surreptitiously accessed. Bill O’Reilly, who seemed to be of the opinion that the U.S. government was behind the intrusion, pressed Attkisson on the matter.

While she didn’t go into detail with regard to who she thought was responsible for the intrusion, she did go into more detail than she did on “CBS This Morning.”

“This is not fishing, this is not malware, this is not, as someone said to me, some old boyfriend looking through my files,” Attkisson said, before O’Reilly pressed her to say who she thought was responsible. “I think I know, but I am not prepared to go into that. We are continuing our investigations.”

WATCH:

CNN anchor Jake Tapper is already a high-profile news anchor, correspondent and cartoonist. Now he is trying his hand at a new skill: dramatic actor.

Tapper will play–get this–an investigative reporter named “Spencer Phillips” on the soap opera “All My Children.” Tapper will appear on the August 19 episode of the daytime soap, which now airs online.

Watch a preview, below.

(h/t Johnny $)

• ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff is planning a series of reports for “Nightline,” highlighting “the most dangerous and extreme places across the globe.” The debut segment airs tonight, and features a look at child coal miners.

• MSNBC.com continues to staff up. The latest additions include Irin Carmon and Tim Noah as reporters and Nisha Chittal as a social media content editor. Richard Wolffe‘s memo to staff, after the jump.

• Barbara Walters will be given the Excellence in Journalism Award by The American News Women’s Club at the National Press Club Friday. Norah O’Donnell will emcee, with Ted Koppel set to speak.

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25-54 demographic (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 215 | MSNBC: 107 | CNN: 75 | HLN: 86

• Primetime: FNC: 191 | MSNBC: 154 | CNN: 101 | HLN: 89

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CNN’s “Stroumboulopoulos” debuted in its permanent Friday evening time period last week, and–as promised–we have the ratings. The program averaged 303,000 total viewers, and 76,000 viewers adults 25-54 Friday at 11 PM.

Those numbers put the program third in cable news in total viewers, behind a repeat of “The O’Reilly Factor” on FNC and “MSNBC Investigates” on MSNBC. In the demo it placed fourth, just behind “Showbiz Tonight” on HLN. The full scoreboard will be up shortly.

The Friday premiere was up in total viewers from its Sunday debut last week, but down slightly in the demo. The Sunday premiere was up against tough competition, with the NBA Finals, the Tony Awards, “Mad Men” and “Falling Skies” all going head to head with Strombo’s program. Friday’s show did not face any tough TV competition, though it is a time period that likely had a much smaller potential viewer pool than Sunday saw.

Compared to Fridays at 11 PM season to date, the debut was down -43% in total viewers, and -63% in the demo.

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CBS News anchor Scott Pelley‘s comments to Deadline over the weekend comparing cable and network news has been fodder on Fox News today. First, here’s part of the Q&A:

DEADLINE: While the news flow on cable may be in the hundreds of thousands, a lot of people are watching Bill O’Reilly, a couple of million a night. Same thing with Hannity.

PELLEY: We measure our audience in millions. They’re not big numbers. People talk about cable a lot and cable has a very high profile. Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don’t. If you look at the Nielsen numbers, the cable channels have a few hundred thousand viewers at any given moment. The CBS Evening News again has 7 million viewers, ABC has 8 million viewers. Brian [NBC's Williams] has almost 9 million. Altogether we have about 25 million viewers on any given night. That’s a very different order of magnitude.

The story was discussed on “Fox & Friends” this morning and again on Megyn Kelly‘s show. Kelly, in a discussion with Michelle Malkin, says Pelley answering that question by dismissing a fact in it, does a disservice to his audience. She also took a jab at Pelley: “We beat you in all the debates and on election night, Scott.”

You can bet former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg will have a few things to say about it tonight on his regular Monday night “O’Reilly Factor” appearance.

(h/t J$P)