‘Awkward’: Tony Dokoupil’s Fill-In Delivers CBS Evening News’ Best Ratings in Four Months
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"‘Awkward’: Tony Dokoupil’s Fill-In Delivers CBS Evening News’ Best Ratings in Four Months" is generating significant coverage in the Entertainment category, with 5 articles from 5 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include detpress.com, TV Insider, ADWEEK and status.news. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Generated by PULSE's extractive engine from coverage metadata only — no AI-written claims. Updated 90d ago.
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Coverage (8)
- An anchor for CBS News took a two-week vacation and the program’s viewership skyrocketed The Independent · 90d ago
- Tony Dokoupil’s fill-in Matt Gutman reels in best ratings for ‘CBS Evening News’ in months New York Post · 90d ago
- ‘Awkward’: Tony Dokoupil’s Fill-In Delivers CBS Evening News’ Best Ratings in Four Months Yahoo · 90d ago
- FOR 16th STRAIGHT WEEK, ‘ABC NEWS WORLD TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR’ IS THE #1 PROGRAM ON ALL TV WITH 8.2 MILLION VIEWERS AND THE #1 NEWSCAST IN TOTAL VIEWERS, ADULTS 25-54 AND ADULTS 18-49, LEADING NBC BY 1.5 MI detpress.com · 90d ago
- CBS, ABC & NBC Evening News Ratings: Tony Dokoupil Sees Growth for 2nd Week in a Row TV Insider · 90d ago
- Week of July 27 Evening News Ratings: ABC News and CBS News Don’t Shed Viewers ADWEEK · 90d ago
- Dokoupil’s Ratings ‘Dagger’ status.news · 90d ago
- ‘Awkward’: Tony Dokoupil’s Fill-In Delivers CBS Evening News’ Best Ratings in Four Months Mediaite · 90d ago
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