Thursday, June 11, 2026

CBS Evening News Ratings Drop by 400K Viewers, Down 600K From A Year Ago as Tony Dokoupil-Bari Weiss Sputter

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People are not watching the CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil.

Last week CBS News PR says the ratings were 4.5 million. That’s down from 4.9 mil the week before.

It’s also down from 5.13 million exactly one year ago.

CBS says the key age demo is up somehow, but in reality it’s also down.

Producer Bari Weiss is doing to CBS News what Donald Trump did to the Kennedy Center. Unfortunately, CBS can’t suspend the Evening News for two years to install marble seat rests.

Absolutely no one is taking the Dokoupil broadcast seriously, especially after all the negative press for him, Weiss, and the overall management of the network.

Interesting to note that after all the Weiss CBS fawning over Donald Trump, he’s doing his Super Bowl interview with Tom Llamas on NBC. Llamas had better go hard on Trump — as a journalist he’s risking his career at this point.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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