Overview
- Nielsen figures reported by the New York Post show the program averaging about 4.3 million viewers and 560,000 adults 25–54 for January, putting it on pace for its weakest January since at least 2000.
- In the week of January 12, CBS Evening News averaged 4.19 million viewers and 584,000 in the 25–54 demo, up slightly from 4.17 million and 533,000 in Tony Dokoupil’s first week.
- Dokoupil’s January 13 interview with President Donald Trump drew roughly 4.3 million viewers and 657,000 in the demo on CBS and generated about 18 million social views, with separate audio surfacing of press secretary Karoline Leavitt pressing CBS to air the exchange in full.
- CBS continues to trail its competitors for the week of January 12, as ABC’s World News Tonight averaged 8.16 million viewers with 1.04 million in the demo and NBC Nightly News drew 6.68 million with 964,000.
- The show notched a one-night high of roughly 6.4 million viewers on Monday of that week, a night when NBC’s newscast was preempted for NBA coverage, as CBS rolls out changes under editor in chief Bari Weiss.