The plunge in viewership comes as Weiss has ushered in an era of Trump-friendly politics for the network.
CBS’s “Evening News” program lost over a million viewers in its first week under its new anchor, Tony Dokoupil, compared to the same period last year, marking a sharp loss for the network after the network’s billionaire owners installed far right provocateur Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief in October.
Data from media audience measurement firm Nielsen shows that the show lost nearly a quarter of its viewership in the first five days of Dokoupil taking over the program, from January 5 to January 9, compared to the same period last year.
While the program had an average of 5.4 million viewers each day over that period last year, Variety reports, only about 4.17 million watched the program this year. Other previous anchors’ debuts for the program have gotten roughly 5 million viewers or more, Variety points out.
It is for Trump. The only thing he cares about is ratings.
He might, because he’s a dumbass.
He and other conservative chuds feel that TV shows on linear television have “low ratings” because they went “woke”, when the reality is that there is a sea change in consumer media habits.
Shortsighted. He used to care about that; now it’s just a tool for him. He wants the destruction now. He’s out for revenge. We stole his little kid rapey time from him and he had to kill his friend to cover it up and it’s OUR fault that that happened and he’s gonna make us PAY while we kiss his ass