News Ratings: Week Ending May 2, 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	8,126	7,976	7,635	-	-
	CBS	4,924	4,618	-	5,323	4,896
	NBC	6,660	6,535	-	6,901	6,308
6P	CNN	860	817	945	820	756
	FOX NEWS	1,939	1,804	1,846	1,884	1,751
	MSNBC	1,180	1,317	1,534	1,630	1,324
7P	CNN	932	926	1,040	996	909
	FOX NEWS	1,697	1,676	1,621	1,662	1,610
	MSNBC	1,350	1,309	1,515	1,447	1,312
8P	CNN	1,063	942	1,483	1,078	1,068
	FOX NEWS	2,999	2,951	3,344	3,034	2,428
	MSNBC	1,358	1,397	2,544	1,520	1,235
9P	CNN	1,075	1,091	3,345	1,137	914
	FOX NEWS	2,618	2,580	3,003	2,795	2,282
	MSNBC	2,442	2,486	4,116	2,588	2,269
10P	CNN	1,050	1,004	2,953/2,269/1,957	908	755
	FOX NEWS	1,941	2,057	3,177/3,332/2,838	2,208	1,842
	MSNBC	1,895	1,631	4,072/2,926/2,838	1,869	1,399
11P	CNN	668	624	1,148	704	564
	FOX NEWS	1,467	1,574	2,132	1,645	1,286
	MSNBC	1,406	1,262	1,979	1,531	1,188

Adults 25-54 viewers: 25-54 presented in viewers was not available for 9pm & 10pm Wednesday for CNN, so the 25-54 ratings are provided instead. Note: CNN's 9pm hour led cable in both 18-49 and 25-54. 

TIME	NET	25-54 (000)	25-54 (000)	25-54 (000)	25-54 (000)	25-54 (000)
		Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
VAR	ABC	1,537	1,496	1,432	-	-
	CBS	859	755	-	890	723
	NBC	1,137	1,350	-	1,308	1,081
6P	CNN	230	237	315	270	178
	FOX NEWS	320	268	286	295	246
	MSNBC	161	165	205	226	156
7P	CNN	265	268	303	282	200
	FOX NEWS	276	259	292	278	249
	MSNBC	201	146	215	189	152
8P	CNN	313	311	428	266	186
	FOX NEWS	558	506	605	476	375
	MSNBC	190	221	360	197	137
9PM	CNN	344	307	(0.77)	292	165
	FOX NEWS	423	410	622	454	305
	MSNBC	391	357	709	373	275
10P	CNN	350	265	(0.67/0.55/0.48)	237	156
	FOX NEWS	342	373	564/571/487	321	317
	MSNBC	258	238	717/467/452	264	183
11P	CNN	206	157	339	221	137
	FOX NEWS	325	364	331	317	233
	MSNBC	185	210	306	223	181

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	0.15	0.18	0.15	0.11
	FOX NEWS	0.15	0.13	0.15	0.12	0.11
	MSNBC	0.08	0.08	0.10	0.09	0.06
7P	CNN	0.13	0.16	0.15	0.14	0.13
	FOX NEWS	0.13	0.13	0.16	0.11	0.12
	MSNBC	0.10	0.07	0.11	0.09	0.06
8P	CNN	0.15	0.17	0.24	0.12	0.11
	FOX NEWS	0.26	0.24	0.28	0.22	0.18
	MSNBC	0.11	0.13	0.18	0.10	0.06
9P	CNN	0.16	0.17	0.58	0.17	0.10
	FOX NEWS	0.19	0.19	0.34	0.23	0.15
	MSNBC	0.17	0.16	0.38	0.19	0.13
10P	CNN	0.17	0.13	0.49/0.41/0.36	0.14	0.10
	FOX NEWS	0.16	0.18	0.30/0.29/0.25	0.14	0.15
	MSNBC	0.13	0.13	0.39/0.25/0.23	0.14	0.09
11P	CNN	0.10	0.09	0.20	0.13	0.09
	FOX NEWS	0.15	0.17	0.15	0.13	0.09
	MSNBC	0.10	0.11	0.15	0.12	0.09

Source: Nielsen Media Research