News Ratings: Week Ending February 7, 2021

This has been a long time coming, but this is the very first weekly TV news ratings recap. 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 (yet). 

Total Viewers:

TIME	NET	Viewers (000)	Viewers (000)	Viewers (000)	Viewers (000)	Viewers (000)
		Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
VAR	ABC	10,448	10,089	9,511	9,585	8,911
	CBS	6,124	5,967	5,708	6,062	5,879
	NBC	8,648	8,119	8,222	8,311	7,750
6P	CNN	1,772	1,863	1,813	2,458	1,737
	FOX NEWS	2,113	2,249	2,076	1,973	1,756
	MSNBC	2,071	2,016	2,188	2,607	2,115
7P	CNN	1,981	2,008	2,041	2,537	1,942
	FOX NEWS	1,960	2,085	2,161	1,891	1,814
	MSNBC	2,048	2,075	2,250	2,725	2,045
8P	CNN	2,064	2,143	2,309	2,706	2,121
	FOX NEWS	3,598	3,523	3,534	3,406	2,643
	MSNBC	2,334	2,281	2,475	2,599	2,128
9PM	CNN	2,190	2,458	2,405	2,582	2,213
	FOX NEWS	2,992	3,054	2,890	2,858	2,545
	MSNBC	3,706	3,557	3,898	4,018	3,330
10P	CNN	1,833	2,202	1,773	1,963	1,618
	FOX NEWS	2,076	2,288	2,096	2,261	2,022
	MSNBC	3,126	2,579	2,835	2,835	2,243
11P	CNN	1,221	1,338	1,235	1,213	1,185
	FOX NEWS	1,178	1,302	1,151	1,290	1,214
	MSNBC	2,367	2,113	2,220	2,333	2,007

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	2,064	1,995	1,889	1,948	1,688
	CBS	1,103	1,065	963	1,164	1,074
	NBC	1,727	1,575	1,754	1,674	1,403
6P	CNN	393	482	441	608	449
	FOX NEWS	255	332	314	317	247
	MSNBC	288	329	337	351	302
7P	CNN	446	463	490	636	436
	FOX NEWS	308	326	329	284	279
	MSNBC	327	350	354	410	247
8P	CNN	495	601	533	653	527
	FOX NEWS	575	555	564	524	408
	MSNBC	345	368	361	376	265
9PM	CNN	513	659	569	580	506
	FOX NEWS	446	453	425	436	404
	MSNBC	608	590	622	625	478
10P	CNN	468	627	521	501	421
	FOX NEWS	326	385	314	385	366
	MSNBC	430	378	441	416	288
11P	CNN	348	448	402	345	355
	FOX NEWS	223	242	196	288	242
	MSNBC	360	317	354	350	282

Cable 18-49 Ratings:

TIME	NET	18-49	18-49	18-49	18-49	18-49
		Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
6P	CNN	0.23	0.28	0.22	0.34	0.24
	FOX NEWS	0.11	0.17	0.15	0.15	0.11
	MSNBC	0.12	0.16	0.16	0.17	0.12
7P	CNN	0.25	0.28	0.28	0.35	0.23
	FOX NEWS	0.15	0.17	0.18	0.13	0.13
	MSNBC	0.15	0.17	0.18	0.20	0.11
8P	CNN	0.26	0.33	0.29	0.36	0.29
	FOX NEWS	0.27	0.29	0.29	0.25	0.18
	MSNBC	0.16	0.24	0.19	0.20	0.12
9PM	CNN	0.28	0.33	0.31	0.30	0.28
	FOX NEWS	0.21	0.24	0.20	0.19	0.19
	MSNBC	0.30	0.34	0.31	0.33	0.23
10P	CNN	0.26	0.31	0.28	0.26	0.22
	FOX NEWS	0.14	0.17	0.16	0.18	0.17
	MSNBC	0.19	0.24	0.23	0.21	0.13
11P	CNN	0.18	0.21	0.21	0.17	0.16
	FOX NEWS	0.10	0.11	0.09	0.13	0.09
	MSNBC	0.17	0.18	0.20	0.17	0.13

Source: Nielsen Media Research