“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” last week racked up its 15th consecutive ratings win over its NBC rival, statistics released Tuesday revealed.
The average Colbert viewership during the week ended May 12 was 3.07 million — compared with 2.68 million for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
The CBS late-night winning streak is the longest in more than seven years — since the week ended Jan. 15, 2010.
Fallon still won the key demographic of viewers ages 18 to 49 — coveted by advertisers — with a 27 percent edge over Colbert, Nielsen data showed.
With only one week left in the TV season, the season-to-date contest couldn’t be any closer.
Fallon’s 3.182 million average nightly viewers is just ahead of the 3.174 million who tune in for the fast-closing Colbert.
The year-to-date averages include live viewing plus seven days of delayed playback. The weekly numbers do not.
FullConsortium on May 17th, 2017 at 07:31 UTC »
Well, Colbert is funny and genuine. Fallon is funny.
In the current political climate being genuine is more valuable than just being funny.
MaybeAliensDidIt on May 17th, 2017 at 05:05 UTC »
I like Colbert, don't have TV but watch his monologues online. But I also like Fallon, he's good for just simple pleasures and happy times to balance out the "the world is ending everything is terrible" message that is broadcast on every channel.
good_myth on May 17th, 2017 at 03:24 UTC »
I love how they found a picture of Fallon looking pissed, even though it's probably just a picture of him caught off guard. For people who don't want to click on the NY Post: http://i.imgur.com/dXv8eJg.png