CBS News Regains 2nd Place

NEW YORK — CBS regained second place in the news ratings last week, but its prime-time schedule dropped to third for only the fourth time this season, according to ratings from A. C. Nielsen Co. released today.

NBC continued two winning streaks--23 weeks in a row in prime time, 12 weeks in a row for “NBC Nightly News.” All three of the network newscasts have been close together in the Nielsen ratings, but “CBS Evening News” had spent an unprecedented five weeks in a row in third place. Last week, the NBC news had an average rating of 9.7, CBS news had a 9.5 and ABC’s “World News Tonight” had a 9.1.