Posted on 04/29/2008 2:24:53 PM PDT by abb
For the second week in a row, “The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric” has notched record low ratings.
The newscast dropped some 50,000 viewers to average 5.34 million total viewers for the week of April 21, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. “Evening News” had averaged 5.39 million viewers the previous week.
Finishing first in the broadcast network flagship news race for the week was “The NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams” with 8.01 million total viewers.
ABC’s “World News With Charles Gibson” averaged 7.79 million viewers, a quick rebound of some 280,000 from 7.51 million viewers the previous week. There was speculation that the newscast was suffering from public backlash against the ABC News debate between Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Among viewers 25 to 54 years old, the key news demographic, “World News” and “Nightly News” tied with an average 2.33 million viewers each.
“CBS Evening News” averaged 1.58 million viewers in the 25-54 demo, a week-to-week drop of 110,000 viewers in the demo for which advertisers will pay top dollar.
ping
.."10 people watched me last night. thats 3 more than last week"
YES THERE IS A GOD
MAN if she is not basement back then now she is OH MAN
That less than half of people watching the network news
i haven’t watched abc, cbs, or nbc in 20 years. i didn’t even know that couric was the anchor of cbs evening news. traditional t.v. stations are ignoring their own impending funeral.
Perky is doing the limbo with her ratings.
How low can the Perky one limbo before she is out of there?
There’s only one solution to save the NBC Nightly News, replace Katie Caustic with Megyn Kelly.
If I read this correctly, and some one tell me if I am wrong, Rush gets a bigger audience than these clowns.
Couric Newscast Slips Again in Ratings as the last of the Couric family members are quoted as saying, "Family Loyalty can only be extended so far".
I’m alright with this, just as long as she doesn’t try to increase her ratings by showing us her innards, again.
I’m not willing to start watching her, just to be one of the people that quits watching her.
Here’s hoping she jumps out of a very high window in the C.BS building.
“Couric Newscast Slips Again in Ratings”
Kind of like slipping on the basement floor, isn’t it?
Translation: 50,000 members of the viewing audience for CBS Evening News passed away last week.
There are 21 million idiots still watching SOME network news? WHY?!
That is like looking at pigeon guts to see current events!
That’s funny. Soon she will drop below O’Reilly in the ratings.
Meanwhile at local affiliates big-salaried anchors, meteorologists, etc., are getting axed while Moonves stays with his sinking ship, S.S. Couric. The local news lead-in.
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