Evening News Ratings: 2001

Merry Christmas Eve! Below are the weekly average viewership and 25-54 ratings for the evening news programs that aired on ABC, CBS, and NBC in 2001. Note that no 25-54 data was available for the week ending July 20th; and no viewership data was available for the week ending September 7th. No data at all is available for the week ending September 14th as Nielsen did not release any weekly report out of respect for the events of September 11, 2001 that week. 

EVENING NEWS RATINGS (2001)
Week Ending	Total Viewers (millions)			25-54 (rating)
	ABC	CBS	NBC	ABC	CBS	NBC
January 5, 2001	9.8	10.2	11.9	3.2/14	3.2/14	3.9/14
January 12, 2001	10.0	10.1	11.5	3.3/14	3.0/14	3.7/16
January 19, 2001	10.3	9.4	11.7	3.3/14	2.7/13	3.9/16
January 26, 2001	10.24	9.59	11.11	3.4/15	2.9/13	3.6/16
February 2, 2001	10.17	9.30	11.16	3.4/15	2.7/13	3.5/16
February 9, 2001	9.62	9.63	11.62	3.3/14	2.9/13	3.8/16
February 16, 2001	9.85	9.37	10.70	3.2/15	2.7/13	3.6/16
February 23, 2001	10.30	9.05	10.89	3.5/15	2.6/13	3.6/16
March 2, 2001	9.46	9.25	10.59	3.0/15	2.8/13	3.4/16
March 9, 2001	10.26	9.39	11.32	3.6/15	2.7/13	3.7/16
March 16, 2001	8.94	9.12	10.07	2.9/14	2.5/13	3.1/16
March 23, 2001	9.4	8.8	10.4	3.1/15	2.5/13	3.1/15
March 30, 2001	9.22	9.26	10.16	3.1/13	2.6/14	3.2/15
April 6, 2001	9.0	8.1	9.1	2.8/15	2.4/13	2.7/15
April 13, 2001	8.76	7.97	8.88	3.0/15	2.2/13	2.7/15
April 20, 2001	8.6	7.9	9.3	2.7/15	2.3/13	2.9/15
April 27, 2001	8.0	7.4	8.5	2.4/14	2.0/13	2.7/14
May 4, 2001	8.07	7.51	8.89	2.5/14	2.0/13	2.8/15
May 11, 2001	8.3	7.5	8.2	2.6/12	2.1/10	2.4/12
May 18, 2001	8.3	7.7	8.6	2.5/14	2.2/13	2.7/14
May 25, 2001	8.59	8.08	8.41	2.7/12	2.2/10	2.7/12
June 1, 2001	8.46	7.97	8.85	2.6/12	2.3/10	2.8/13
June 8, 2001	7.9	8.3	8.2	2.5/11	2.4/10	2.6/12
June 15, 2001	7.8	8.3	9.8	2.5/14	2.0/13	2.9/15
June 22, 2001	8.3	7.6	8.5	2.5/15	2.1/13	2.7/15
June 29, 2001	8.4	7.4	8.1	2.4/12	1.9/9	2.5/12
July 6, 2001	8.4	7.1	7.2	2.5/12	2.0/9	2.2/10
July 13, 2001	8.32	7.7	8.37	2.6/12	1.9/8	2.5/12
July 20, 2001	8.5	7.5	8.3	-	-	-
July 27, 2001	8.25	8.1	8.49	2.6/14	2.1/13	2.8/14
August 3, 2001	8.1	8.4	8.8	2.6/14	2.3/14	2.7/15
August 10, 2001	8.7	8.0	8.8	2.8/15	2.2/13	2.8/15
August 17, 2001	6.8	5.8	6.3	2.61/15	1.9/12	2.57/14
August 24, 2001	8.2	7.1	9.0	2.6/12	1.9/9	2.9/13
August 31, 2001	8.9	8.0	9.4	2.7/12	2.1/9	2.9/13
September 7, 2001	-	-	-	2.5/14	2.2/13	3.1/16
September 14, 2001	-	-	-	-	-	-
September 21, 2001	11.2	8.8	11.0	3.69/14	2.6/10	3.71/14
September 28, 2001	10.7	8.9	10.6	3.4/14	2.6/10	3.3/13
October 5, 2001	10.0	9.1	10.5	3.1/13	2.5/10	3.4/14
October 12, 2001	10.8	9.6	11.4	3.5/13	2.8/10	3.8/14
October 19, 2001	10.8	9.6	11.4	3.4/13	2.6/10	3.5/14
October 26, 2001	10.5	9.4	10.6	3.3/13	2.6/10	3.5/14
November 2, 2001	11.3	9.7	11.2	3.5/13	2.7/10	3.7/14
November 9, 2001	11.4	9.7	10.8	3.4/12	2.7/10	3.4/13
November 16, 2001	12.0	10.2	11.7	3.7/13	2.9/10	3.9/14
November 23, 2001	11.0	9.9	11.5	3.4/13	2.8/9	3.7/14
November 30, 2001	11.65	10.32	11.78	3.7/14	2.7/9	3.9/14
December 7, 2001	10.6	9.6	10.9	3.2/12	2.7/10	3.5/13
December 14, 2001	11.0	9.8	11.2	3.4/13	2.7/10	3.6/14
December 21, 2001	10.0	9.2	11.2	3.1/12	2.6/10	3.6/14
December 28, 2001	10.4	8.9	11.7	3.5/13	2.5/9	3.8/14

Source: Nielsen Media Research