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Special to the Director's Cut Blog By DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer NEW YORK - Some weeks NBC must wish it could start prime time a couple of hours earlier. The network's "Nightly News" broadcast with Brian Williams averaged 9.1 million viewers over five days last week, clearly outdistancing rivals at ABC and CBS. The problem for NBC is that it also beats virtually everything the network shows in prime time. Take away Sunday night football and its preview shows and the most-watched NBC show last week was "Law & Order: SVU," with 7.3 million viewers. "Harry's Law" had 7.2 million, Nielsen said. NBC has moved Williams to prime time once a week, with his newsmagazine "Rock Center" on Mondays. Viewership has yet to catch up with its content, with 3.9 million people watching Bob Costas interview disgraced Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky last week. In prime time, CBS is the king - sometimes to starlin...

Update: In case you missed the interview live at 7, you can watch it below. ----- NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams will join us live on Channel 3 News at 7 PM following his national broadcast from Green Memorial High School in Summit County where he is following John McCain and Sarah Palin. During Nightly News, Brian will share an interview he did with both earlier today. Be sure to join us at 7 PM for Brian's thoughts on the election, now less than 2 weeks away - and how important Ohio is once again. Brian Williams on Channel 3 News at 7 PM Chuck Todd, NBC Political Director, joined us live in the studio

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams broadcasted live from the Flats in downtown on Cleveland Monday, November 12th. Unfortunately it was pouring rain and lightning when the show started at 6:30 PM. Before that, he visited the Channel 3 studios to talk with us and others in the community about the state of Cleveland and the country. Timeline of Brian's Visit: Around Noon: Brian arrived at WKYC to meet with staff, take pictures, tour the WKYC Digital Broadcast Center 2:30 PM: Began working on final preps for NBC Nightly News.. his staff and him meet for over an hour to go over the show in our News Directors office. 3:30 PM: Heads to main news studio to begin taping promos with Tim White and Romona Robinson. 4:30 PM: Brian leaves WKYC and heads to his remote location near the Superior Viaduct. 5:45 PM: Brian does a talkback with Tim & Romona from his broadcast location for the 6 PM show 6:30 PM: Nightly News airs with a stormy background. A thunderstorm passes over just as the sh...

This time around in our "Meet the Stars" feature, we profile "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams. His recent appearance as host of Saturday Night Live has garnered much interest, so let's take a deeper look at the man who brings us the evening news on NBC: Brian Williams is the seventh anchor and managing editor in the history of "NBC Nightly News," which represents the largest single daily source of news in America. Recently, Williams became the most honored network evening news anchor. He received four Edward R. Murrow Awards, his fifth Emmy Award, the duPont-Columbia University Award and the industry's highest honor, the George Foster Peabody Award. Most were given for his work in New Orleans while covering Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, and all were awarded to Williams in only his second year on the job. Williams was the first and only network evening news anchor to report from New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina hit and was the onl...