The CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY is up +6% year-to-year in viewers (6.47m from 6.11m) for the week ending June 12, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings. The CBS broadcast added +360,000 viewers and closed the viewership gap with NBC by nearly 1 million viewers (970,000) compared to the same week last year.

The CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY also maintained its rating in adults 25-54 (1.2/05) –the demographic most important to those who advertise in news – compared to last year.

            Season-to-date, the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY is up +2% in viewers (7.17m from 7.00m) and even in adults 25-54 (1.4/06) compared to last season.

            On last week’s broadcasts, Jim Axelrod investigated how some pharmacies are gouging America’s health care system; Holly Williams and David Martin reported on the ongoing fight against ISIS; Wyatt Andrews spoke with University of Virginia student Martese Johnson whose bloody arrest drew national attention; and Don Dahler and Anna Werner reported on the prison escape in upstate New York.

Steve Capus is the Executive Producer of the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY and Executive Editor of CBS News.

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