News Ratings: Week Ending February 21, 2021

Below are the ratings for the evening news telecasts on the three major broadcast networks: ABC (World News Tonight), CBS (CBS Evening News), and NBC (NBC Nightly News), as well as six hours of evening/night ratings (6pm-12am) for the three major cable news networks: CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. There are three charts below, the first includes total viewership (presented in thousands), the second includes viewership among adults 25-54 (the news demographic), and the final chart includes 18-49 ratings for the cable programs. I don't have 18-49 data for the broadcast news programs. Additionally, data only goes from Monday-Friday as I do not track weekend news ratings. 

Total viewers:

TIME	NET	Viewers (000)	Viewers (000)	Viewers (000)	Viewers (000)	Viewers (000)
		Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
VAR	ABC	10,750	10,440	9,980	10,236	9,338
	CBS	6,872	6,368	6,442	6,382	5,794
	NBC	8,768	8,643	8,184	8,384	7,633
6P	CNN	1,218	1,300	1,195	1,321	1,224
	FOX NEWS	2,147	2,167	2,216	2,044	1,895
	MSNBC	1,906	1,875	1,800	1,979	2,001
7P	CNN	1,439	1,576	1,559	1,637	1,467
	FOX NEWS	1,879	1,699	1,709	1,713	1,641
	MSNBC	1,807	1,835	1,885	1,951	1,886
8P	CNN	1,564	1,852	1,838	1,951	1,782
	FOX NEWS	3,558	3,502	3,690	3,061	2,726
	MSNBC	1,887	2,051	2,181	2,208	2,005
9P	CNN	1,627	3,639	1,860	2,053	1,366
	FOX NEWS	3,177	2,980	3,461	3,118	2,122
	MSNBC	3,137	3,216	3,420	3,468	2,603
10P	CNN	1,322	2,253	1,556	1,607	1,341
	FOX NEWS	2,289	2,334	2,341	2,232	1,878
	MSNBC	2,229	2,196	2,364	2,673	1,578
11P	CNN	938	1,146	1,059	1,025	948
	FOX NEWS	1,293	1,351	1,167	1,301	1,082
	MSNBC	1,856	1,867	2,075	2,097	1,591

Adults 25-54 viewers:

TIME	NET	25-54 (000)	25-54 (000)	25-54 (000)	25-54 (000)	25-54 (000)
		Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
VAR	ABC	2,083	2,290	1,992	2,006	1,783
	CBS	1,295	1,215	1,180	1,216	915
	NBC	1,732	1,802	1,677	1,680	1,309
6P	CNN	302	352	298	308	310
	FOX NEWS	315	336	312	291	288
	MSNBC	282	256	260	316	264
7P	CNN	301	363	367	407	338
	FOX NEWS	269	305	263	265	245
	MSNBC	322	270	291	360	287
8P	CNN	306	435	406	514	405
	FOX NEWS	522	549	580	530	401
	MSNBC	317	294	420	393	290
9PM	CNN	339	902	428	520	358
	FOX NEWS	427	413	521	491	283
	MSNBC	481	476	549	569	327
10P	CNN	304	661	413	480	352
	FOX NEWS	344	369	344	390	296
	MSNBC	278	320	375	421	210
11P	CNN	222	316	290	303	249
	FOX NEWS	236	197	213	275	177
	MSNBC	221	252	314	367	208

Cable 18-49 ratings:

TIME	NET	18-49	18-49	18-49	18-49	18-49
		Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
6P	CNN	0.17	0.20	0.18	0.18	0.19
	FOX NEWS	0.14	0.16	0.14	0.15	0.14
	MSNBC	0.12	0.11	0.12	0.15	0.13
7P	CNN	0.17	0.20	0.21	0.22	0.19
	FOX NEWS	0.13	0.14	0.12	0.14	0.11
	MSNBC	0.15	0.14	0.14	0.17	0.15
8P	CNN	0.16	0.23	0.22	0.28	0.19
	FOX NEWS	0.26	0.23	0.25	0.27	0.20
	MSNBC	0.16	0.15	0.20	0.17	0.15
9P	CNN	0.16	0.53	0.22	0.28	0.16
	FOX NEWS	0.20	0.20	0.25	0.23	0.15
	MSNBC	0.25	0.22	0.26	0.26	0.16
10P	CNN	0.15	0.39	0.24	0.26	0.17
	FOX NEWS	0.16	0.16	0.17	0.20	0.14
	MSNBC	0.14	0.15	0.18	0.21	0.11
11P	CNN	0.12	0.18	0.15	0.16	0.11
	FOX NEWS	0.11	0.07	0.10	0.15	0.07
	MSNBC	0.12	0.12	0.15	0.18	0.09

Source: Nielsen Media Research