On the eve of Brian Williams' one-year anniversary in the chair, the NBC Nightly News is continuing its "ratings surge," NBC says.

For the week of Nov. 21, NN averaged 11,003,000 viewers, while ABC had 9,306,000 and CBS had 8,171,000. "This represents the program's best delivery since the week of January 17, 2005," NBC notes.

> Also: The CBS Evening News "is the only network evening newscast to post gains for the week of Nov. 21, as well as season-to-date, in total viewers and households," CBS says. The broadcast is up in seven of 10 weeks and five of the last six weeks...