“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.
SAGATvsAKUMA on May 17th, 2017 at 08:28 UTC »
I kinda wish Conan was on a better network, he's always been my favourite.
Edit: Since a lot of people are confused by what I mean by "better network", I mean a network with more money and viewer's which in turn will let him get better guests on his show and can get him to do more remotes. However I do agree that cable allows him to express himself more and do his "Conan" antics
greengrasser11 on May 17th, 2017 at 07:47 UTC »
I watch Colbert's monologues pretty much every day. They're great... except Jon Batiste throwing in COLLLLDDD BLOOOODDDEEDDDD. It's so unnecessary. His strength is music. They should stop pushing the late night side kick thing on him so much. I never liked side kicks anyway.
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