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Nightly newscasts vie for first


April 27, 2008 There's been a lot of ink spilled about Katie Couric and her third-place newscast, but the real battle is for first place. ABC's "World News With Charles Gibson" and "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" are, in a way, the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama of the evening newscast race. "For all intents and purposes, it's a tie ballgame," said Jonathan Banner, executive producer of the ABC newscast.

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