Late-night Ratings: Leno & Fallon Hit Highs In Viewers, 'Nightline' Takes Season Lead

NBC won three nights in primetime last week, and its ratings gains also carried over to late-night. Both Jay Leno (4.2 million viewers) and Jimmy Fallon (1.9 million) hit season highs in total viewers. for the week of Dec. 13-17. Leno also topped Letterman and Nightline/Jimmy Kimmel in every key category and also prevailed over Conan O'Brien's TBS show (1.1 rating vs. 0.7) in adults 18-49 for a fourth straight week. Fallon too topped Ferguson and Kimmel in every major category.

Leno widened his margin of victory over Letterman in 18-49 to 22% in viewers (1.402 million vs. 1.149 million), up from a 3% win for the same week last year when Conan was the host of The Tonight Show. Similarly, Fallon topped Late Late Show for the week by 25% (861,000 vs. 689,000), up from last year's 3%.

Versus the first 13 weeks of last season, Tonight is matching its year-ago 1.0 rating in adults 18-49 and is 6% below its year-ago 18-49 viewership, while CBS' Late Show is down 10% in rating (0.9 vs. 1.0) and down 14% in 18-49 viewers. In total viewers, Tonight is up 52% versus last season, Late Show is down 15%.
ABC’s Nightline was second for the week among total viewers (3.87 million) and adults 18-49 (1.24 million). Season-to-date, Nightline ranks in first place among viewers and A25-54, the first time the newsmagazine has been in first place at this point in the season since at least the 1993-94 season when the Late Show with David Letterman began on CBS.

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Conan draws viewers into "Live Cam" Stunt

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 10: 27 pm PDT

Conan O'Brien received a sampling of solid pre-launch with the release of 24 hours of the Live Cam of CoCo show late night coming comedian at offices. According to preliminary estimates, some 660 000 viewers listens to check the live stream at a given time in the window 24 hours on 24, which ended earlier today.For comparison, the average audience was that TBS gets at 11 PM with George Lopez, this should be a promising sign for Conan debut November 8 TBS. .the ' average audience at any time during the flow of CoCo Cam live was 13 000, with thousands more watch the clips on YouTube highlight.

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