News Ratings: Week Ending May 9, 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	8,458	8,343	7,834	7,925	6,980
	CBS	5,173	4,920	4,875	4,874	4,227
	NBC	7,224	6,744	6,070	6,192	6,060
6P	CNN	811	749	809	667	665
	FOX NEWS	2,009	1,841	1,730	1,614	1,667
	MSNBC	1,385	1,512	1,408	1,474	1,321
7P	CNN	924	807	946	820	782
	FOX NEWS	1,740	1,669	1,522	1,477	1,427
	MSNBC	1,320	1,375	1,406	1,244	1,309
8P	CNN	1,104	933	1,084	993	753
	FOX NEWS	3,081	2,988	2,913	2,853	2,663
	MSNBC	1,401	1,477	1,552	1,455	1,600
9P	CNN	1,138	1,107	1,221	1,107	881
	FOX NEWS	2,834	2,748	2,835	2,631	1,868
	MSNBC	2,457	2,719	2,638	2,756	2,495
10P	CNN	908	993	969	855	764
	FOX NEWS	2,352	2,060	2,049	1,945	1,628
	MSNBC	1,807	1,700	1,821	1,758	1,348
11P	CNN	578	678	755	536	579
	FOX NEWS	1,522	1,423	1,383	1,444	1,305
	MSNBC	1,379	1,384	1,229	1,416	1,167

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	1,665	1,576	1,431	1,426	1,186
	CBS	909	834	855	765	655
	NBC	1,470	1,197	1,073	1,117	1,013
6P	CNN	180	216	220	180	180
	FOX NEWS	290	353	251	253	245
	MSNBC	157	157	171	163	136
7P	CNN	227	194	283	176	185
	FOX NEWS	302	336	250	250	219
	MSNBC	155	157	209	159	172
8P	CNN	242	200	248	263	133
	FOX NEWS	494	517	462	452	347
	MSNBC	186	195	207	188	216
9PM	CNN	236	270	238	265	179
	FOX NEWS	448	431	472	446	241
	MSNBC	362	363	380	370	314
10P	CNN	205	273	238	262	180
	FOX NEWS	407	352	354	340	221
	MSNBC	233	207	250	242	151
11P	CNN	171	217	212	172	173
	FOX NEWS	298	254	253	288	224
	MSNBC	216	199	221	220	157

Cable 18-49 ratings:

TIME	NET	18-49	18-49	18-49	18-49	18-49
		Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
6P	CNN	0.09	0.13	0.13	0.10	0.10
	FOX NEWS	0.14	0.19	0.11	0.11	0.12
	MSNBC	0.06	0.06	0.08	0.07	0.05
7P	CNN	0.12	0.12	0.14	0.10	0.11
	FOX NEWS	0.14	0.17	0.11	0.12	0.11
	MSNBC	0.07	0.07	0.10	0.07	0.07
8P	CNN	0.12	0.10	0.14	0.13	0.08
	FOX NEWS	0.25	0.26	0.22	0.21	0.15
	MSNBC	0.09	0.10	0.09	0.10	0.10
9P	CNN	0.11	0.15	0.15	0.14	0.10
	FOX NEWS	0.22	0.21	0.21	0.20	0.12
	MSNBC	0.18	0.18	0.19	0.18	0.13
10P	CNN	0.10	0.13	0.12	0.14	0.09
	FOX NEWS	0.21	0.17	0.15	0.14	0.09
	MSNBC	0.11	0.08	0.12	0.12	0.07
11P	CNN	0.07	0.10	0.11	0.10	0.08
	FOX NEWS	0.13	0.11	0.10	0.11	0.08
	MSNBC	0.10	0.08	0.11	0.11	0.07

Source: Nielsen Media Research