News Ratings: Week Ending April 18, 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	8,282	8,398	8,257	8,403	8,016
	CBS	5,092	5,036	5,358	5,213	4,817
	NBC	7,111	6,911	6,996	6,800	6,656
6P	CNN	1,037	1,025	951	910	920
	FOX NEWS	2,085	1,709	1,875	1,848	1,747
	MSNBC	1,628	1,331	1,476	1,680	1,511
7P	CNN	1,279	1,147	1,105	1,022	1,078
	FOX NEWS	1,647	1,402	1,652	1,626	1,548
	MSNBC	1,597	1,302	1,470	1,504	1,479
8P	CNN	1,289	1,282	1,251	1,137	1,014
	FOX NEWS	3,106	2,943	3,167	3,221	2,838
	MSNBC	1,668	1,507	1,612	1,854	1,612
9P	CNN	1,434	1,290	1,395	1,327	1,150
	FOX NEWS	2,681	2,805	2,868	2,708	2,407
	MSNBC	2,770	2,515	2,930	2,796	2,034
10P	CNN	1,349	1,136	1,160	1,061	913
	FOX NEWS	1,996	2,277	2,014	2,298	1,792
	MSNBC	1,795	1,629	1,744	1,899	1,239
11P	CNN	941	829	798	774	667
	FOX NEWS	1,484	1,280	1,507	1,561	1,366
	MSNBC	1,412	1,342	1,434	1,462	1,205

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	1,584	1,565	1,504	1,503	1,563
	CBS	793	984	987	859	743
	NBC	1,414	1,288	1,298	1,272	1,205
6P	CNN	298	320	325	231	275
	FOX NEWS	385	248	331	285	251
	MSNBC	222	184	213	253	195
7P	CNN	370	324	324	264	331
	FOX NEWS	317	181	292	273	266
	MSNBC	247	175	217	224	181
8P	CNN	354	374	385	303	259
	FOX NEWS	563	452	509	517	458
	MSNBC	214	223	237	318	176
9PM	CNN	434	369	403	354	273
	FOX NEWS	501	373	429	447	318
	MSNBC	469	310	424	360	240
10P	CNN	455	374	379	317	223
	FOX NEWS	394	436	323	381	288
	MSNBC	284	246	259	212	150
11P	CNN	337	250	255	275	184
	FOX NEWS	329	320	306	293	264
	MSNBC	232	208	216	204	132

Cable 18-49 ratings:

TIME	NET	18-49	18-49	18-49	18-49	18-49
		Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
6P	CNN	0.14	0.18	0.17	0.13	0.16
	FOX NEWS	0.19	0.11	0.16	0.12	0.12
	MSNBC	0.11	0.08	0.11	0.11	0.11
7P	CNN	0.18	0.18	0.16	0.14	0.19
	FOX NEWS	0.14	0.08	0.14	0.12	0.12
	MSNBC	0.11	0.08	0.11	0.09	0.10
8P	CNN	0.18	0.20	0.21	0.15	0.15
	FOX NEWS	0.27	0.22	0.26	0.27	0.24
	MSNBC	0.10	0.12	0.10	0.16	0.09
9P	CNN	0.25	0.21	0.22	0.18	0.16
	FOX NEWS	0.26	0.18	0.20	0.22	0.17
	MSNBC	0.22	0.15	0.20	0.16	0.12
10P	CNN	0.27	0.22	0.22	0.17	0.14
	FOX NEWS	0.20	0.20	0.14	0.19	0.15
	MSNBC	0.13	0.11	0.14	0.11	0.07
11P	CNN	0.19	0.14	0.15	0.16	0.12
	FOX NEWS	0.15	0.16	0.14	0.13	0.13
	MSNBC	0.09	0.10	0.10	0.09	0.06

Source: Nielsen Media Research