{"id":2234307,"date":"2026-01-14T11:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2234307"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:25:37","slug":"cbs-evening-news-ratings-slip-across-the-board-in-tony-dokoupils-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cbs-evening-news-ratings-slip-across-the-board-in-tony-dokoupils-first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018CBS Evening News\u2019 Ratings Slip Across the Board in Tony Dokoupil\u2019s First Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8098276\/\">Tony Dokoupil<\/a>\u2019s first week on \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0070627\/\">CBS<\/a> Evening News\u201d has seen slipping ratings across the board.<\/p>\n<p>As <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5677293\/\">Dokoupil<\/a> took the helm of the evening news telecast, the first week of Jan. 5-11 averaged 4.17 million viewers, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0889943\/\">Nielsen<\/a> big data plus panel live-plus-same-day figures. That\u2019s down 23% from the same week last year, which saw \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d score 5.4 million viewers from Jan. 6-10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCBS <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0765447\/\">Evening<\/a> News\u201d also saw a 23% year-over-year decrease in the 25-54 demo, with the week of Jan. 5-11 averaging 533,000 as compared to the 690,000 demo viewers averaged by the show during the first week of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A slight year-over-year downtick is to be expected due to declining linear viewership,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Dokoupil\u2019s first week on \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d has seen slipping ratings across the board. As Dokoupil took the helm of the evening news telecast, the first week of Jan. 5-11 averaged 4.17 million viewers, according to Nielsen big data plus panel live-plus-same-day figures. That\u2019s down 23% from the same week last year, which saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2234308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2234307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018CBS-Evening-News-Ratings-Slip-Across-the-Board-in-Tony.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234309,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234307\/revisions\/2234309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}