310,000 viewers may seem like a lot, but in the world of nightly news, any number under a million in minuscule. (This also may seem like very boring news, but waiting for the Ellie winners to be announced is the most excruciating media event ever.)

So we have to give a little shout out to Les Moonves and CBS news for finishing sweeps week less behind ABC than last year.

The CBS EVENING NEWS WITH BOB SCHIEFFER finished the week of May 1 only 310,000 viewers behind ABC’s “World News Tonight,” narrowing the gap with ABC by 1.64 million viewers and with NBC’s “Nightly News” by 1.03 million viewers compared to the same week last year.

Yeah, we probably should give props to Bob Schieffer, too, but we just think everyone is practicing flipping to CBS in preparation for Katie Couric's big debut.

'CBS EVENING NEWS' ONLY 310,000 VIEWERS BEHIND ABC 'WORLD NEWS TONIGHT' [Drudge Report]