News Ratings: Week Ending May 16, 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	8,234	7,910	8,315	7,655	7,086
	CBS	4,897	4,932	4,694	4,477	4,367
	NBC	7,038	6,853	6,660	6,303	5,716
6P	CNN	760	832	893	867	692
	FOX NEWS	2,004	1,980	2,193	1,958	1,776
	MSNBC	1,381	1,231	1,405	1,353	1,365
7P	CNN	890	972	1,017	965	786
	FOX NEWS	1,768	1,820	1,839	1,909	1,624
	MSNBC	1,266	1,161	1,441	1,354	1,277
8P	CNN	982	1,269	1,080	1,109	848
	FOX NEWS	3,125	3,266	3,226	3,198	2,957
	MSNBC	1,510	1,242	1,603	1,575	1,445
9P	CNN	1,227	1,154	1,136	1,129	808
	FOX NEWS	2,816	2,915	2,821	2,762	2,342
	MSNBC	2,472	2,547	2,643	2,701	2,446
10P	CNN	884	932	1,008	979	785
	FOX NEWS	2,195	2,400	2,339	2,268	2,010
	MSNBC	1,613	1,694	1,863	1,839	1,371
11P	CNN	579	691	660	697	500
	FOX NEWS	1,528	1,658	1,577	1,771	1,556
	MSNBC	1,291	1,165	1,393	1,460	1,118

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	1,516	1,516	1,684	1,463	1,289
	CBS	830	866	888	705	715
	NBC	1,395	1,233	1,290	1,229	947
6P	CNN	202	245	210	270	166
	FOX NEWS	281	295	372	282	225
	MSNBC	138	137	168	152	134
7P	CNN	255	289	237	228	212
	FOX NEWS	281	350	347	292	268
	MSNBC	118	165	196	165	141
8P	CNN	281	307	231	241	233
	FOX NEWS	535	529	532	512	474
	MSNBC	171	191	188	176	164
9PM	CNN	298	242	234	268	190
	FOX NEWS	455	435	403	448	330
	MSNBC	316	397	347	363	310
10P	CNN	260	244	274	282	192
	FOX NEWS	441	398	409	441	331
	MSNBC	203	239	218	277	160
11P	CNN	187	221	194	206	137
	FOX NEWS	335	332	293	409	295
	MSNBC	147	149	171	190	158

Cable 18-49 ratings:

TIME	NET	18-49	18-49	18-49	18-49	18-49
		Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
6P	CNN	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.14	0.10
	FOX NEWS	0.13	0.13	0.16	0.13	0.09
	MSNBC	0.05	0.06	0.08	0.07	0.05
7P	CNN	0.16	0.15	0.13	0.11	0.12
	FOX NEWS	0.14	0.16	0.17	0.13	0.12
	MSNBC	0.05	0.07	0.11	0.07	0.05
8P	CNN	0.16	0.18	0.13	0.13	0.12
	FOX NEWS	0.25	0.25	0.27	0.23	0.23
	MSNBC	0.08	0.09	0.09	0.07	0.08
9P	CNN	0.16	0.12	0.13	0.12	0.10
	FOX NEWS	0.22	0.21	0.21	0.21	0.15
	MSNBC	0.16	0.18	0.17	0.17	0.15
10P	CNN	0.15	0.12	0.14	0.13	0.10
	FOX NEWS	0.21	0.18	0.18	0.22	0.16
	MSNBC	0.10	0.10	0.11	0.11	0.08
11P	CNN	0.10	0.13	0.10	0.10	0.05
	FOX NEWS	0.13	0.15	0.10	0.18	0.15
	MSNBC	0.09	0.07	0.08	0.08	0.07

Source: Nielsen Media Research