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.
And the 3/4 that are left will be slowly shifted right as they Fox Newsify it.
It’ll plateau sure, but it’s only been a week - we can hope the trend continues. I myself did not know about the merger change until I saw this post (although I’m by no means a regular CBS viewer) so there’s still plenty of people who will depart from the platform.
Since it’s on a downswing, wouldn’t it technically be a “valley” instead of a “plateau”?
I just meant that the trend of losing viewers will level off at some point.
No I know, just being pedantic about it for fun
plateau _____ / / _____/ valley ____ \ \ \ ______