Nielsen Corrects ABC's 'World News' Viewer Total

The Nielsen recount found the audience for "World News" last Friday was 6.34 million viewers.

Nielsen didn't factor in "World News" broadcasts for Tuesday and Thursday of last week, when the program was pre-empted in much of the country for ABC's coverage of the National Basketball Association finals. Similarly, NBC's "Nightly News" is based on a three-day average (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday). That newscast was widely pre-empted the other two days for NBC's coverage of the National Hockey League finals.

A ratings point represents 1,145,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 114.5 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.

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