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TV ratings illustrate hunger for news on coronavirus threat

by AP Media Writer
| March 18, 2020 12:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Reflecting a hunger for information about the coronavirus outbreak, last Thursday's episode of ABC's “World News Tonight” had more viewers than anything that aired in television's prime time last week.

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