Today's Business Headlines: 03/17/26
CBS News’ flagship evening broadcast has fallen below the key 4 million–viewer mark for the first time since editor in chief Bari Weiss Last year, CBS execs kicked John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois off the show when their ratings repeatedly slipped below the 4 million–viewer mark — a threshold long seen internally as a warning sign.
“ABC World News Tonight” led the pack with about 8.48 million total viewers over the same stretch — 1.03 million of them in the 25-to-54 demo.MS NOW poised to make major midday lineup shakeup “NBC Nightly News” comfortably outpaced CBS, too, drawing around 6.51 million total viewers, with 946,000 in the 25-to-54 demographic, Nielsen data show. The program anchored by Tom Llamas has also narrowed the gap with ABC, topping “World News Tonight” in the key demographic during the weeks of Jan. 5, Feb. 9 and Feb. 16 — marking the closest competitive margin between the two broadcasts in six years, Nielsen data show.CBS News insiders said their recent ratings dip was likely tied in part to the start of daylight saving time, Variety reported., with the program topping its season-to-date average in nine of its first 10 weeks and rising 7% in total viewers and 10% in adults 25 to 54 versus compared to earlier this season, per Nielsen figures. Network insiders reportedly noted that CBS held onto more viewers than its rivals during a recent week of declines tied to shifting news events.— a figure that includes traffic from CBS-owned local stations — though it still narrowly clung to the top spot ahead of rivals including NBC News, CNN and Fox News.Meanwhile, NBC News grew 8% over the same period to 87 million unique visitors, gaining ground on CBS and leapfrogging competitors including CNN and Fox News.got off to an awkward start . During his first regular broadcast, he tripped over a teleprompter pivot and left viewers with several seconds of dead airHalf-naked twerking spring breaker hurled from Jeep in horrifying crash: video3.5KMeghan Markle and Kate Middleton have these ‘effortless and chic’ button-up shirts in commonStream It Or Skip It: 'That Night' On Netflix, Where Sisters Cover For Each Other When One Of Them Runs Over Someone While On Vacation
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