MAGA-friendly 'CBS Evening News' sees viewership plummet to alarming levels: report

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.rawstory.com/cbs-evening-news-2676269014/

"CBS Evening News" crashed back below the dreaded 4 million viewer threshold following it's MAGA-friendly makeover, a red line that previously triggered major shake-ups at the network, Variety reported Tuesday.

For the week ending March 13, the program drew just 3.83 million viewers, with a measly 468,000 in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demographic, according to Nielsen data. The stark freefall comes after anchor Tony Dokoupil's start in January, when he debuted with 4.17 million viewers. Shortly thereafter, he brought in 4.6 million.

Meanwhile, the competition is lapping CBS.

ABC's "World News Tonight" commanded an average 8.48 million viewers, while NBC's "Nightly News" pulled 6.51 million. In the key demographic, both networks crushed CBS with 1.03 million and 946,000 viewers, respectively.

[Delarage]

1. I'm glad

I never watch it ... longtime ABC World News watcher here ... I hope they realize they're on the wrong side of history.

[IzzaNuDay]

2. Glad and hope viewership goes even lower!

CBS is in the FO phase!

[Deuxcents]

3. I watch the last bit every Friday night for On the Road with Steve Hartman..which, btw, he moonlighted

Because he never asked permission from CBS to do a documentary and just won an Emmy for it.
Took him a few years as he and his camera man sought out parents of slain children by gun fire.
To make All the Empty Rooms..four bedrooms and stories of kids’ bedrooms left exactly as they were they day they died. He wanted to put the children and who they were in front of us instead of just a headline. Probably too woke for CBS but he did it on his own and I admire him even more for it.

[dflprincess]

8. Actually, he won an Oscar for it

just to nit pick a bit.

I try to catch his segment every Friday too. But otherwise, CBS News is dead to me.

[Deuxcents]

17. Yes, you are right! It was an Oscar and I don't know why "Emmy" was on my mind!

[617Blue]

4. At this point I think that they don't care about viewers

They exist to sane wash, both sides and propagandist for the right and not to make money. In the same way that Musk bought Twitter not to make money but as a vehicle for his fascist gaslighting.

[Mysterian]

7. I believe you are correct

The billionaires don't care about advertising revenue. They are controlling what we see and hear to keep corrupt republicans in power.

https://www.freepress.net/who-owns-media

[Boo1]

27. To control what we see an hear....

Don't they need people to watch?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

12. wasted effort. CBS news will never be MAGA enough for MAGA. they crave more than "sane washing"

rightwing radio and FAUX news literally licks trump's butt and promotes extreme racist philosophy to a degree that CBS never will.

[JBTaurus83]

14. This.

Friends of the Pig are buying up all of our media for indoctrination purposes. they can write off any business losses, and, the Pig will assist them with their other businesses.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. I presume that there's still further depths to plummet

So CBS’s corporate masters can learn that presstitution for MAGA and Epstein’s best bud doesn’t pay.

[CousinIT]

6. Carr is right that the news media's ratings are in the crapper. However...

…demanding that they do more of what got them there to begin with won’t help. Case in point, the OP here.

[Blue Owl]

9. GOOD.

Every network the oligarchs seize control of needs to die of starvation.

[samsingh]

10. makes me wonder though how people are still watching it

those watching CBS in the first place were not maga. So why are they staying? The only place cbs could get viewers would be to get fox viewers to switch

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

13. they don't know any better. Most people don't follow politics to a detailed degree

current CBS watchers probably have no idea that they are now getting a titled towards GOP view.

[samsingh]

26. i would think that of fox viewers - but CBS was always more dignified

[UTUSN]

11. K&R for, alarmed about the MAGAt-friendly part not the plummet.

[Jack Valentino]

15. I watch ABC evening news now, if anything. (Don't have cable).

[a kennedy]

16. I don't even watch our local CBS Network......

[iemanja]

19. Our local is good

Mpls here. They covered ICE and the protests well.

[iemanja]

18. Good. They deserve it.

Same thing happened to the Washington Post. The idiots let their ideology get in the way of the bottom line. They don't deserve to be in business.

[NBachers]

20. Crash and burn you Maggots, crash and burn

[Takket]

21. I'm hoping a future Democratic government

Is working on an anti-trust plan to break up these oligarchs owned propaganda machines.

[FakeNoose]

22. Yep they lost me ... more than a year ago

... and I used to be a regular viewer.

[Grim Chieftain]

23. I will not watch CBS other than Colbert and sports

Good grief. The network of Cronkite and Rather is no longer the bastion of honesty and integrity.

[sakabatou]

24. Gee, who knew becoming Faux News would be a bad thing?

[W_HAMILTON]

25. #ETTD

[QueerDuck]

28. Finally, some good news for a change.

[City Lights]

29. LOL. You reap what you sow, CBS.

Sucks to suck...

[Blue Owl]

30. LET IT DIE.

[DBoon]

31. exactly as planned

They eliminated a network that would try to present the truth.
They did not take control of CBS to make money - the Ellisons have more money than god.
It was worth it to them to silence one broadcaster and threaten the rest.

[Rebl2]

32. I am

happy to see their downfall