While the industry was focused on NBC and CBS last week, ABC was gaining a few viewers. World News Tonight edged NBC Nightly News for a win in the 25-54 demo last week. (90,000 viewers separated the two programs.) NBC beat ABC by more than 500,000 total viewers. CBS dropped from 7,730,000 the week of March 27 to 6,950,000 last week. For the week of April 3:

Total viewers: NBC: 8,360,000 / ABC: 7,830,000 / CBS: 6,950,000

25-54 rating: NBC: 2.2/9 / ABC: 2.3/9 / CBS: 1.8/7

25-54 viewers: NBC: 2,740,000 / ABC: 2,830,000 / CBS: 2,220,000

> Compare to: March 27 / March 20 / March 13 / March 6