![Celebrities Visit SiriusXM Studios - June 29, 2015 NBC-Nightly-News-Lester-Holt](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/nbc-nightly-news-lester-holt.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
NBC Nightly News does not seem to be missing Brian Williams.
Lester Holt, the Dateline anchor who took Williams’ seat after the star anchor’s February suspension, drew in a total of 8 million viewers over his first official week as chief anchor last week, the New York Times reports.
This put the Nightly News just ahead of their main competitor, ABC’s World News Tonight, which led NBC in evening news viewers from April to June but received only 7.7 million viewers this past week.
Williams, who was suspended after it emerged in February he had exaggerated an anecdote about coming under attack during a 2003 helicopter ride in Iraq, will remain with the company as an anchor for MSNBC despite being ousted from his evening news seat.
[NYT]
More Must-Reads from TIME
- Eyewitness Accounts From the Trump Rally Shooting
- Politicians Condemn Trump Rally Shooting: ‘No Place for Political Violence in Our Democracy’
- From 2022: How the Threat of Political Violence Is Transforming America
- ‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
- Remembering Shannen Doherty , the Quintessential Gen X Girl
- How Often Do You Really Need to Wash Your Sheets?
- Welcome to the Noah Lyles Olympics
- Get Our Paris Olympics Newsletter in Your Inbox
Contact us at letters@time.com