‘CBS Evening News’ Tony Dokoupil Ratings Revealed as Wife Katy Tur Speaks Out
What To Know
- Tony Dokoupil’s official debut as anchor of CBS Evening News saw a ratings boost over the show’s season average but still lagged significantly behind ABC and NBC.
- The former CBS Mornings host has urged viewers of Evening News to hold him to account.
- Dokoupil’s debut week has faced technical issues and criticism, but he received public support from his wife, MS NOW anchor Katy Tur.
The ratings are in for Tony Dokoupil’s official debut as anchor of CBS Evening News, and while the numbers were up on the show’s season averages, they still trailed ABC and NBC by a wide margin.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, citing Nielsen viewing data, Dokoupil’s Monday (January 5) broadcast drew 4.37 million total viewers and 596,000 viewers in the key adults 25-54 demographic. This was up around nine per cent from the Evening News season average of 4.02 million and up 20 per cent in the demo from a 498,500 average.
Technically, Dokoupil made his debut earlier than expected, when he was called in to anchor on Saturday (January 3) to cover the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Viewing data for the Saturday broadcast hasn’t been made available.
While the Monday broadcast improved on Evening News‘ season average, the numbers were still well behind rival shows ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir, which led the 6:30 pm slot on Monday with 8.24 million viewers, and NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas, which averaged 7.21 million viewers.
NBC also led the night in the 25-54 demo with just under 1.1 million viewers, while ABC drew 1.02 million.
Dokoupil’s move from CBS Mornings to CBS Evening News came after several shake-ups at CBS News, including the hiring of The Free Press co-founder Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief in October.
Tony Dokoupil and Katy Tur; Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards
On New Year’s Day, CBS News shared a video statement from Dokoupil, who urged viewers to hold him to account as he begins his new role. In his statement, he promised to prioritize the average American over advertisers, politicians, and corporate interests, including his CBS bosses.
However, Dokoupil’s debut week has been marred by technical issues and criticisms of trying to appease the Trump administration.
Dokoupil’s wife, MS NOW anchor Katy Tur, has been lending her support to her husband amid the backlash. On Wednesday, she shared a clip of Dokoupil’s interview with White House Border Czar Tom Homan on her Instagram stories. She also expressed her support in an Instagram post of his interview about growing up in Miami, writing, “I love this man.”
CBS Evening News With Tony Dokoupil, Weeknights, 6:30/5:30c, CBS
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The sudden departure of Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson was insane. The duo were well-liked. Probably the best team since Huntley-Brinkley. ABC spends its time chasing Hollywood "celebrities", NBC is hyper and overactive and everything is BREAKING NEWS, even the invasion of Venezuela three days ago. Tony Dukoupil appears to be a twin of Tom Llamas in his first week. Sorry, but I have to put CBS News back in the doldrums they enjoyed with Nora.
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I have the need to correct you: Her name is spelled "Norah".
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CBS is owned by Larry Ellison he bought it so he could have a propaganda channel to compete with FAUX news. He has well over a hundred billion in contracts with the Trump administration. Anyone who expects anything different from FAUX is kidding themselves.
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Katy Tur's husband, in one of his news segments, praised Rubio to high heaven.
That's a kind of screwed-up country and media landscape we are living in. Love cannot
be dissociated from morality. If Tur is willing to defend Dokoupil, she shouldn't be
on MS NOW.
A word about Bari Weiss and wingnut Jews. My father was Jewish, a Holocaust survivor.
This is a source of unending annoyance to me. I'm Jewish, and I'm appalled at the number of Jewish right-wing or trump's fellow-travelers and activists, whom I unapologetically call Uncle Toms. Jews have always been predominantly liberal. They still are (about 75% in America), but I just can't grasp the depths of depravity (read careerism, greed, and lust for power) of those Jews that have opted to belong to the camp that has always been openly or covertly antisemitic. The right-wing's newly-found love for Israel is a result of their base's Rapture phantasmagorias, which even some members of the highest government echelons used to espouse (Pence, Pompeo). And, you know what is supposed to happen during Rapture? The deserving Christians will ascend to heaven while the Jews will remain on earth, gnashing their teeth. That's how much the right wing respect Jews.
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I was no Katie tur fan before. And I'm certainly not one now
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We thoroughly enjoyed watching CBS mornings with Tony, Nate & Gail and have watched it faithfully since it started with Gail, Nora & Charlie. But now that Tony is no longer on the morning show, and CBS has bent their “news” to appease the deranged orange felon currently in what’s left of the peoples’ White House, we no longer watch any CBS news programs.
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katyt tur hates trrans she admits it . why are people like representing us as a people on the news if =she hates some of us they both are bad and should be fired or worse
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Isn't one of her parent trans? Your blanket statement is not well informed (I'm being kind)
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