NBC News in "Crisis Mode" as ABC WNT Ratings Rise?

NBC is holding crisis meetings over the future of “Nightly News With Brian Williams” after rival ABC’s “World News Tonight with David Muir” scored a historic ratings win according to the New York Post's Page Six.

We reported yesterday that ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir had scored an across-the-board ratings win in Total Viewers (8.416 million), Adults 25-54 (2.204 million) and Adults 18-49 (1.528 million), for the week of September 29, 2014.

Sources told Page Six that after the release of the figures Tuesday, “the NBC News morning call was very somber. A meeting was held with the ‘Nightly News’ executive producer to try to motivate the staff. There will be further crisis meetings.”

They also say that the relationship between NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and NBC News president Deborah Turness — whose next mission is to halt the show’s declining ratings — don’t exactly see eye to eye.

One Page Six insider described their relationship as “icy.”

An NBC rep said, “The only tension in our morning call was about getting our colleagues safely out of West Africa.” And about Deborah and Brian, “That is absolutely false. They talk all the time and meet multiple times a week. In fact, Deborah just drove to Philadelphia to see Brian accept an award at a lunch two weeks ago.” 

Stay tuned!