{"id":29207,"date":"2026-04-30T15:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=29207"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:04:35","slug":"tony-dokoupil-hits-rock-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=29207","title":{"rendered":"Tony Dokoupil Hits Rock Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"what-to-know-box\">\n<h3>What To Know<\/h3>\n<div class=\"what-to-know-content\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil<\/em> has seen ratings drop below 4 million viewers for the third consecutive week.<\/li>\n<li>Industry executives have expressed serious concerns about the show\u2019s future.<\/li>\n<li><em>ABC World News Tonight<\/em> leads with strong year-over-year gains, while <em>NBC Nightly News<\/em> maintains second place.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                The latest evening news ratings are in, and it\u2019s not looking good for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/cbs-evening-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>CBS Evening News<\/em><\/a>, which has now finished below 4 million viewers for the third week in a row.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/week-of-april-20-2026-evening-news-ratings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AdWeek<\/a>, citing national live+same-day big data plus program ratings from Nielsen, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/tony-dokoupil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Dokoupil<\/a> fronted broadcast <strong>averaged 3.771 million total viewers<\/strong> and <strong>467,000 viewers in the Adults 25-54 demographic<\/strong> for the week of April 20. This was down 1 percent in total viewers and down 3 percent in the demo compared to the week prior.<\/p>\n<p>The show was also down on the same period last year, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/john-dickerson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Dickerson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/maurice-dubois\/#:~:text=Maurice%20DuBois%20is%20an%20American,%22%20and%20%22Soul%20Men.%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maurice DuBois<\/a> helmed the program. <em>CBS Evening News<\/em> fell by 2 percent in total viewers and by 12 percent in the key demo. Dokoupil took over as anchor on January 5 after he was promoted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/cbs-mornings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>CBS Mornings<\/em><\/a> by CBS News editor-in-chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/bari-weiss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bari Weiss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, <em>CBS Evening News<\/em> marked its second-lowest-rated April this century, and its lowest 25-54 demo rating ever.<\/p>\n<p>According to Oliver Darcy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.status.news\/p\/tony-dokoupil-cbs-evening-news-ratings-bari-weiss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Status newsletter<\/a>, veteran television executives have raised concerns about the future of <em>CBS Evening News<\/em>. \u201cThis isn\u2019t what a turnaround looks like. This is what a train wreck looks like,\u201d one executive told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Another said that Weiss\u2019 \u201cdecisions have turned off even more of their shrinking audience. These declines are part of a larger and deeper crisis at CBS News.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/world-news-tonight-with-david-muir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>ABC World News Tonight with David Muir<\/em><\/a> remained at the top, <strong>averaging 8.537 million total viewers<\/strong> and <strong>1.56 million demo viewers<\/strong> for the week of April 20. This was up 4 percent in total viewers and up 5 percent in the demo compared to the week before. The show was also up 15 percent in total viewers and up 1 percent in the demo compared to 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/world-news-tonight-with-david-muir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas<\/em><\/a> held onto the No. 2 spot, <strong>averaging 6.168 million total viewers<\/strong> and <strong>831,000 demo viewers<\/strong>, for the week of April 20. Compared to the week prior, the show was down 4 percent in total viewers and down 12 percent in the demo. However, compared to the same week in 2025, <em>Nightly News<\/em> was up by 8 percent in both measured categories.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>CBS Evening News<\/strong><\/em><strong>, Weeknights, 6:30\/5:30c, CBS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>NBC Nightly<\/em>\u00a0News, Weeknights, 6:30\/5:30c, NBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>ABC World News Tonight<\/strong><\/em><strong>, Weeknights, 6:30\/5:30c, ABC<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<pre><code>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '2150724991788914');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1261271\/cbs-evening-news-ratings-tony-dokoupil-abc-nbc\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What To Know CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil has seen ratings drop below 4 million viewers for the third consecutive week. Industry executives have expressed serious concerns about the show\u2019s future. ABC World News Tonight leads with strong year-over-year gains, while NBC Nightly News maintains second place. The latest evening news ratings are in, &#8230; <a title=\"Tony Dokoupil Hits Rock Bottom\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=29207\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tony Dokoupil Hits Rock Bottom\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tony-Dokoupil-Hits-Rock-Bottom.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29209,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29207\/revisions\/29209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}