Depending on the point of comparison, Tony Dokoupil’s first three months as anchor of the CBS Evening News resulted in either improving or declining ratings. The overall standings of the network news race, however, remained unchanged.
Dokoupil and CBS are certainly under the most scrutiny, as he was tapped by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss to lead the nightly newscast as her first big hire, with the aim of bringing the Evening News closer to its rivals. In the first quarter through March 20 (which includes the final week for Dokoupil’s predecessors in the anchor chair, John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois), the CBS Evening News is averaging 4.24 million viewers and 532,000 people in the key news demographic of adults 25-54, based on Nielsen same-day ratings.
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That’s an improvement over the fourth quarter of 2025, when the newscast averaged 4.03 million viewers
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