‘CBS Evening News’ Tony Dokoupil Ratings Show Dramatic Swing
What To Know
- CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil was the only major evening newscast to show week-to-week growth.
- Despite these gains, CBS still trailed behind ABC World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News, with ABC leading in both total viewers and the key demo.
- NBC Nightly News saw year-over-year growth in both total viewers and the demo.
The latest evening news ratings have been released, bringing some positive news for Tony Dokoupil, as his CBS Evening News broadcast was the only program to record week-to-week growth.
According to AdWeek, citing national live+same-day big data plus program ratings from Nielsen, CBS Evening News averaged 4.17 million total viewers and 504,000 viewers in the key Adults 25-54 demographic for the week of February 23.
Compared to the week before, CBS Evening News was flat in total viewers and up 6 percent in the demo. This made the show the only evening newscast to post gains in either measured category. However, the show was down year over year, with a 3 percent drop in total viewers and a 22 percent drop in the demo.
Despite CBS Evening News‘ weekly gains, it still trailed its competition in both total viewers and the demo. ABC World News Tonight with David Muir took the No. 1 spot with an average of 8.642 million total viewers and 1.028 million demo viewers for the week of February 23.
However, World News Tonight was down from the previous week, with a 3 percent drop in total viewers and a 10 percent drop in the key demo. The newscast was also down 4 percent in the demo compared to the same week last year, though it was up 9 percent in total viewers.
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas finished in second place in both viewers and the demo for the week of February 23. The newscast averaged 6.788 million total viewers and 989,000 demo viewers.
Compared with the week prior, Nightly News was down 11 percent in total viewers and 16 percent in the key demo. This can probably be attributed to the Winter Olympics ending. NBC had exclusive coverage of the event, which had featured heavily in broadcasts. However, the show was up in both measured categories year over year, with an increase of 7 percent in total viewers and 5 percent in the demo.
CBS Evening News, Weeknights, 6:30/5:30c, CBS
ABC World News Tonight, Weeknights, 6:30/5:30c, ABC
NBC Nightly News, Weeknights, 6:30/5:30c, NBC
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There are more people watching cat videos on Facebook than there are watching any of this garbage.
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CBS MORNING IS LIKE A TALK SHOW NOT NEWS
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It’s not even entertaining, everyone talks over each other. The producer must think that’s exciting, i
I don’t watch it any more.
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When you're near the top, you can make only incremental gains. When you're near the bottom, you can make substantial,relative gains. Going from 10,000 viewers to 20,000 is making a 100% gain. (Or as Trump might calcuiate, "It's a 20,000% gain.")
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I really like Tony. He got off to a bad start with the teleprompter malfunction and CBS cowtowing to trump. CBS has a long way to go to get back their credibility, however, Tony is a good newscaster. Let him report the news without the censorship. You have a win here. Don’t mess it up!
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Funny these messages sound like Bari Weiss wrote them all the same.
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The obsession with TV ratings (prompted largely by Trump) - particularly for news broadcasts - is an absurd waste of time. Television ratings have NOTHING to do with the veracity of reporting or journalistic integrity of the news outlet. I would have thought this was sufficiently proven by the exposition of costly lies by the top-rated cable news network at the time, Fox News.
Television ratings reflect nothing more than the ability to grab viewers' attention, often with sensationalized and salacious headlines, to boost ad revenue. Period.
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CBS is now a right wing maga rag, joining faux news. They're nothing but mouthpieces for the convict.
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I quit watching the news due to the rude man in in the White House controlling what we can see. Vladimir Trump is so worried about his reputation that he controls free speech. No one is willing to stand up to this bully. He even ignores the Supreme Court. He thinks he is above all laws. We the people need to get our country back. We need to be able to see and and trust what is reported in the news. Reporters should have the ability to report on things truthfully without expecting retaliation from Vladimir Trump or his gangs.
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I refuse to watch Tony "I am a trumper and a zionist " Dokoupil on anything. I hope his numbers tank, and then tank some more. CBS is trump trash.
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No Trump supporter calls himelf a Trumper.
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I don't think he's a fan of trumpty-dumpty.
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He loves Trump and has made it clear.
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See B S
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This is good news for CBS like "not being dead yet" is good news for Trump.
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Tony not the guy for the job. Nice enough guy just doesn't match the position.
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and couldn't tell the truth about MAGA and Trump if his life depended on it. Sorry he isn't a news man he is a clown in the circus of MAGA billionaires
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I think he’s going an excellent job, people weren’t giving him a chance and started criticizing even before he got started. I watched him on CBS Mornings and had no doubt about his abilities to do a great job.
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Tony Dokoupil is an Israeli spy!… His family lives in the Israeli occupied territories.
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I don't know what CBS is thinking in terms of market strategy. The media is so right-wing saturated. You can't scroll through few channels on your TV without encountering right-wing nonsense. Why are you joining the crowd?
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Viewers are sampling.
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I miss Norah.
I wish all channels would retire or replace all morning people. They have been there forever. Please pick some new, younger people to do the morning shows. These executives must not watch television, it’s in 4k now, please put young people on the television. The old ones look horrible and they have made their millions, hire new faces, please.
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You like him because you like trump LMAO
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I watched him on CBS mornings. After years of watching the program I switched. Such a boring man. I thinking he will be netter than Cronkite? Ridicules.
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TDS describes people who believe that a 5'10" 285+ pound lump is actually 6'3" and 215 like he claims to be.
TDS describes people who think it's macho to wear more makeup than RuPaul, use more hairspray than a beauty queen, squeeze into a girdle, totter around on high heeled lifts, and do more sniping in a day than the entire cast of characters in Mean Girls and Heathers put together.
TDS describes people who think that cheating on three consecutive wives, sleeping with a porn performer while wife #3 is nursing your newborn, and fantasizing about hooking up with your own daughter are signs of good Christian family values.
TDS describes people who think that they and the president are big supporters of American workers and American manufacturing while spending all of their welfare checks on Trump/MAGA hats, shirts, gold shoes, flimsy bibles, cheap watches, and knockoff phones produced in China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Colombia, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.
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This isn't a "poll," it's a ratings report, and Fox isn't a network nightly news broadcast (it isn't even actually news, it's entertainment). You want to throw a turnip into an apples-to-apples comparison of 6 o'clock news ratings just to make yourself feel better about choosing to watch a turnip? Sad.
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Look at the photos of the three news anchors for ABC, CBS and NBC side by side. They look like triplets. Do the networks all hire the same consulting firm? Good luck to them all - they are all very good, but tweak the looks.
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I’m 76, remember Cronkite and Rather and I think this Tony is heading in the best direction CBS News has taken in quite a while. I despise Trump as much as anyone reading this and I really don’t get the “pro-Trump” complaints being leveled at Tony D or CBS in general. I wish ALL of the networks were harder (more honest about) on Trump and his minions but these guys are no worse than anyone else.
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I love Tony and never miss his nightly news.
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David Mnur!=💩= big lies!
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David Muir, ABC news at 6:30 PM used to be SO informative. I can’t watch it anymore due to his TDS. it doesn’t matter what catastrophe is happening in the country he’ll spend the first 15 minutes of his show bashing Trump.
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Team Tony Dokoupil...likeable and smart news anchor!
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How sad is the evening news? ABC's anchor spends his time chasing "celebrities", NBC's team cannot get anymore hyper (can you say chihuahua) the credits are BREAKING NEWS, and CBS crashed and burned when they fired DuBois and Dickerson. Local Fox is still hanging in there (KTVU).
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Tony Dokoupil gets better and better with each passing day. Give him time. He's doing great!!!!
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No time for MEGA anything. I pray he flops.
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I agree that the news show has improved... that first day was a hot mess!! But the show, and Tony, have improved.
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Stop Bari you are embarrassing yourself you and tony out here trying to run cover for a another trash low rent version of Fox News.
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Tony does a great professional job. Maybe these clowns commenting can do it better. Ha
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Stop Tony and Bari you are embarrassing yourself here.
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Where are the polls for Fox News? I bet there are more people in the United States to watch Fox then all those others put together.
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💯 percent 👍
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Nobody’s watching Fox News they’re a bunch of racist on that station
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what did you bet? Not that it matters... you were lying as always anyhow. the propaganda station you speak of does not live up to your expectations (kinda like you)
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Fox isn't news and isn't bound by news standards. They are per their own words an entertainment show and stated it would take an idiot to believe anything they said on the show.
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Hahaha hahaha
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