More bad news for Bari Weiss’ CBS as viewers – Business News
CBS News is stumbling below editor-in-chief Bari Weiss as each the “CBS Evening News” and “CBS Mornings” have fallen to troubling scores lows, pointing to a deepening viewers droop on the community.
For the week ending April 20, “CBS Mornings,” co-hosted by Gayle King — who lately reupped with the community — drew simply 1.8 million viewers, far behind NBC’s “Today” at about 3 million.
Meanwhile, ABC’s “Good Morning America” stood at roughly 2.9 million, whereas delivering solely round 310,000 viewers in the important thing 25–54 demographic in comparison with 639,000 for “Today” and 508,000 for “GMA.”
Bari Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News, is dealing with mounting scrutiny as the community’s flagship broadcasts battle within the scores. CBS by way of Getty Images
For that very same week ending April 20, the “CBS Evening News” averaged nearly 3.8 million viewers, far behind ABC’s “World News Tonight” at roughly 8.5 million and NBC’s “Nightly News” at round 6.1 million.
CBS additionally lagged in the important thing 25–54 demo with roughly 467,000 viewers in comparison with more than 1 million for ABC and over 800,000 for NBC.
Fox News, in the meantime, is capitalizing on CBS’s struggles, touting April positive factors and highlighting that its flagship “Special Report with Bret Baier” has crushed the “CBS Evening News” head-to-head in a number of main markets, together with New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Washington, DC.
Fox News additionally pointed to energy within the mornings, saying its “FOX & Friends” averaged about 1.4 million viewers in April and beat “CBS Mornings” in 23 main markets — together with New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston and Washington, DC — as it continues to close the hole with broadcast rivals.
Gayle King, co-host of “CBS Mornings,” which is trailing its morning show rivals in each complete viewers and the important thing demographic. CBS by way of Getty Images
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Sources close to CBS News push back on the grim narrative, pointing to modest indicators of enchancment below Dokoupil, together with a roughly 2% year-over-year increase in April and regular positive factors since he took over in January.
Tony Dokoupil on the anchor desk of “CBS Evening News,” which continues to lag behind ABC and NBC rivals in viewership. CBS by way of Getty Images
Sources additionally famous that the printed is averaging about 4.2 million viewers and 535,000 in the important thing demo this season — up from the prior anchor workforce of Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson.
Under DuBois and Dickerson, the “CBS Evening News” had already been on a downward trajectory, averaging about 3.8 million viewers within the second quarter of 2025 and three.7 million within the third quarter earlier than ticking up to round 4 million within the fourth quarter — with Dokoupil drawing roughly 4.3 million viewers after taking up within the first quarter of 2026.
The scores slide is unfolding alongside inner upheaval on the community, with CBS News lately ousting its London bureau chief after clashes with Weiss over protection of Iran and Gaza — a shakeup that insiders described as one other signal of turmoil inside the news division.
Dokoupil’s complete viewership is much less than half of that of first-place “ABC World News Tonight” anchored by David Muir. ABC
The Post was first to report that Claire Day, the veteran London bureau chief, was on her means out the door after butting heads with the avowedly pro-Israel Weiss over protection of the Middle East.
The shakeup was confirmed by father or mother company Paramount Skydance, which stated former Wall Street Journal Middle East bureau chief Shayndi Raice will take over as international editor.
The Post has sought remark from NBC News, ABC News and CBS News.
