PBS’ “The News Hour” Has Lost 48 Percent Of Its Audience In Eight Years

Using the figures in my 2005 piece and the best Nielsen numbers I can confirm for 2013, the rate of decline for “ABC World News” the last eight years has been 16 percent, while “NBC Nightly News” has lost 17 percent of its audience. “CBS Evening News,” meanwhile, is down 22 percent. That’s an average of 18 percent for the three commercial nightly news shows.