Plane Water Landing Notes: Day Two

• The NBC Nightly News was the top rated evening newscast last night, averaging 10,901,000 Total Viewers. ABC averaged 9,290,000 and CBS 7,654,000. In the A25-54 demo, NBC had a 3,0, ABC 2.6 and CBS 1.9.

• Fox News was the top rated cable channel as the story developed yesterday, averaging 2,382,000 Total Viewers from 3:30pm-6:00pmET. CNN averaged 1,730,000 and MSNBC 766,000. In the A25-54 demo, FNC had 629,000, CNN 470,000 and MSNBC 209,000.

• One of the first survivors to show up on many of the cablers and local networks yesterday was Jeff Kolodjay (New York Magazine profiles him). Click continued to see a brutally honest Kolodjay say exactly how the landing was live, uncensored, on MSNBC…

> Also, we haven’t heard from the now-famous pilot yet (Chesley B. Sullenberger III). Where will he show up first?

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