All posts tagged "Tony Dokoupil"

A MAGA CBS anchor's short vacation led to his show getting the best ratings in months, according to a report.

CBS Evening News finally cracked more than 4 million viewers for the first time since March, according to reporting by Status. However, the show reached the solid ratings while its main anchor, Tony Dokoupil, was on a two-week summer vacation.

Ratings for CBS News programs have struggled during the summer. CBS Evening News plummeted below the 4 million viewer threshold in March as the network was undergoing a MAGA makeover under Bari Weiss. Meanwhile, CBS Mornings saw its lowest-rated week in the program's history in July....

A media expert offered a grim diagnosis of CBS News' "turmoil" under Bari Weiss and noted it's hitting record lows.

During an interview posted by Offline on Saturday, Oliver Darcy, a former CNN reporter and the founder of Status, laid out how CBS News is struggling under Bari Weiss, its conservative editor-in-chief.

"They are collapsing on every front," Darcy said. "CBS Evening News has hit historic low ratings. They struggle now to get four million viewers on the evening news, which would have been unthinkable just even a year ago."...