Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Co. for Nov. 9-15. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X'' in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.

NEW YORK (AP) - Country music helped ABC to its best ratings week in more than a year.

It's been a big year for animation, with a great variety of styles represented by "Up," ''Monsters vs. Aliens," ''Fantastic Mr. Fox" and the upcoming "The Princess and the Frog."

PHOENIX (AP) - NBC newsman Brian Williams said Wednesday he's not sure if Walter Cronkite would have succeeded in the age of cable news, blogs and Twitter.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A New York couple whose lavish lifestyle was featured on an episode of the ABC reality show "Wife Swap" have pleaded guilty to federal charges in Buffalo of hiding money from the government.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A police detective asked a Nevada judge Wednesday to keep warrant documents in the Michael Jackson death investigation sealed until Jan. 18.

NEW YORK (AP) - Stories of rich and poor are common themes among Wednesday night's nominees for the National Book Awards.

NEW YORK (AP) - Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards.

NEW YORK (AP) - The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.

"New York: The Novel" (Doubleday, 864 pages, $30,) by Edward Rutherfurd: New York City wasn't born a grand metropolis and world financial center. In 1664, the year in which Rutherfurd begins his latest sweeping historical novel, New York is New Amsterdam, a modest Dutch trading post of about 1,500 residents on an island the Native Americans called Manna Hata.