CBS says a special primetime edition of "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” placed second in its time period Wednesday night, averaging 6.45 million viewers, behind only "American Idol" on Fox. The Eye net crows that the special broadcast out-delivered competition on NBC ("Knight Rider," 5.85m) and ABC ("Lost Encore," 5.37) in viewers and households.
"We were able to achieve our objective of exposing ‘The CBS Evening News’ to an incremental audience, and hopefully attract more viewers to our 6:30 broadcast," said Sean McManus, President of CBS News and CBS Sports.
