News Ratings: Week Ending April 11, 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	8,574	8,057	8,264	8,089	7,763
	CBS	-	4,997	4,853	5,012	5,091
	NBC	6,516	6,546	6,744	6,583	6,595
6P	CNN	993	752	890	1,010	1,016
	FOX NEWS	1,833	1,875	1,736	1,652	1,546
	MSNBC	1,606	1,542	1,602	1,613	1,569
7P	CNN	1,080	898	1,095	1,075	1,031
	FOX NEWS	1,717	1,829	1,685	1,590	1,501
	MSNBC	1,615	1,483	1,610	1,581	1,602
8P	CNN	1,163	1,142	1,099	1,217	1,104
	FOX NEWS	3,139	3,039	3,007	2,971	2,822
	MSNBC	1,768	1,606	1,764	1,779	1,724
9P	CNN	1,209	1,200	1,240	1,370	1,173
	FOX NEWS	2,474	2,776	2,753	2,735	2,285
	MSNBC	2,572	2,730	3,079	2,569	2,778
10P	CNN	970	924	915	951	910
	FOX NEWS	1,905	2,013	1,916	2,015	1,715
	MSNBC	1,828	1,828	1,998	1,965	1,620
11P	CNN	678	706	654	626	674
	FOX NEWS	1,681	1,735	1,516	1,529	1,387
	MSNBC	1,211	1,384	1,438	1,421	1,163

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	1,688	1,456	1,629	1,664	1,495
	CBS	-	902	824	865	861
	NBC	1,195	1,172	1,167	1,150	1,149
6P	CNN	307	191	254	236	240
	FOX NEWS	309	300	318	301	263
	MSNBC	232	230	218	204	213
7P	CNN	298	206	259	241	221
	FOX NEWS	281	330	299	313	258
	MSNBC	236	207	231	222	245
8P	CNN	284	300	265	267	212
	FOX NEWS	495	535	533	539	470
	MSNBC	248	200	231	255	219
9PM	CNN	259	310	255	272	219
	FOX NEWS	405	413	449	456	356
	MSNBC	400	398	415	369	410
10P	CNN	238	259	239	265	187
	FOX NEWS	341	336	345	388	248
	MSNBC	250	255	269	269	242
11P	CNN	190	220	205	211	177
	FOX NEWS	318	330	334	315	238
	MSNBC	183	176	230	224	180

Cable 18-49 ratings:

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

Source: Nielsen Media Research