"Through ESPN’s 2026 Veterans Week, we are proud to share powerful stories of service, celebrate our veteran colleagues and strengthen the programs that support veterans and military spouses as they pursue their next chapters.”
"I didn't understand how important, not who you knew, how important it was to have people actually like you. I don't live a life of attempting to be liked."
The ratings decline for the newscast comes after at least 11 producers took voluntary buyouts offered by CBS News' parent company -- Paramount Skydance -- in recent weeks.
"There has been a sweeping new vision prioritizing a break from traditional broadcast norms to embrace what has been described as 'heterodox' journalism."
Despite the large week-over-week uptick, CBS Evening News still finished a distant third behind NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas and World News Tonight with David Muir.
"I didn't understand how important, not who you knew, how important it was to have people actually like you. I don't live a life of attempting to be liked."