Overview
- CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil averaged about 3.77–3.8 million viewers and 467,000 adults 25–54 for the week of April 20th, the lowest since he took over and the third straight week below 4 million.
- Gayle King’s CBS Mornings logged its worst first quarter on record and its lowest-rated April on record, with the show drawing about 1.8 million viewers that week and sustained months under 300,000 in the 25–54 demo.
- Competitors widened their leads as ABC World News Tonight averaged roughly 8.54 million viewers and NBC Nightly News drew about 6.17 million in the same week, both far ahead of CBS.
- Network veterans blamed Weiss’s editorial direction and her selection of Dokoupil for alienating viewers, while CBS sources cited audience migration to streaming and pointed to modest season-to-date gains over the previous anchor team.
- Paramount Skydance confirmed a leadership change in the London bureau, naming former Wall Street Journal editor Shayndi Raice as foreign editor after internal friction over coverage and strategy.