It's been one blunder after another during the early days of the Tony Dokoupil era at CBS Evening News. From night one, the flagship broadcast of the Eye's news division has been marred by technical mess-ups, bizarre attempts to suck up to the Trump administration, low-key humiliation by President Trump, and an anchor who seems to think he has earned the right to pontificate at the end of the show like he's a latter-day Cronkite.
Another point that has ABC feeling good: it was WNT's biggest win in total viewers over Nightly News in 30 years. The good news for NBC is that Llamas who replaced veteran host Lester Holt in June had a good end to the year. Nightly News was the only newscast among the three networks to increase total viewers from the third quarter to the fourth quarter adding 477,000 total viewers; that put the show at 6.20 million viewers for the quarter solidifying its full-year viewership.
The Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in 11 innings in Game 7 of the World Series averaged 51m viewers combined across the United States, Canada and Japan. Major League Baseball said it is the most-watched game since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series between the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves. Last Saturday's game averaged 27.33m on Fox Sports, Fox Deportes and Fox's streaming platforms.
For the first two games of the World Series, the average viewership in Japan was almost as high as in the United States, despite a population one-third that of the U.S., and the average viewership in Canada was 10 times greater than it was last year. The average in the three countries, through two games: 30.5 million, MLB said Tuesday.
Even though we are still being preempted in 60 American cities, on Tuesday we had our second-highest-rated show in almost 23 years on the air. Our monologue from Tuesday night has over 21 million views just on YouTube alone. And I wanna say, we couldn't have done it without you, Mr. President. Thank you very much.
David Ellison expressed admiration for South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, praising them as "incredibly talented" and as "equal opportunity offenders" who have consistently pushed boundaries.
We will definitely put something out officially... for now. I would really love to thank all of you who have showed us so much love and support for the past three seasons.
