During the week of October 7, 2013, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live grew for the 2nd consecutive week of the new season in Total Viewers (+12%) and Adults 18-49 (+7%) to draw its biggest overall audience in 6 months and score its best young adult number in 4 months - since the weeks of 4/15/13 and 6/17/13, respectively. In fact, excluding the NBA Finals weeks in June, JKL delivered its best Adult 18-49 performance since its first week at 11:35pm in January - since the week of 1/7/13. For the 2nd week in a row, JKL was up week to week in Adults 18-49 (+7%), while both NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (-4%) and CBS' The Late Show with David Letterman (-4%) were both down from the prior week.
JKL has posted enormous double-digit gains over the year-ago week in all 3 weeks of the new season to date in Total Viewers (+63%) and Adults 18-49 (+74%).
· ABC's
Jimmy Kimmel Live ranked as the #2 talk show in late-night in Adults 18-49.
· ABC's JKL increased its advantage over CBS' Letterman in Adults 18-49 for the 2nd straight week, beating the
CBS late-night talk show by its largest margin of the season yet (+36% vs. +22% for the prior week vs. +9% during premiere week). In addition, JKL nearly tied Letterman in Total Viewers, as just 37k viewers separated the two programs.
· JKL claimed 2 of the 3 highest-rated telecasts in late-night during the week among Adults 18-49, with its Wednesday (10/9/13) and Thursday (10/10/13) shows. Featuring Kanye West on Wednesday, ABC's JKL dominated CBS' Letterman by 70% among Adults 18-49 and NBC's Leno by 43%. JKL ranked #1 in its time periods in each of the Top 10 U.S. Markets on Wednesday in the young adult demo. On Thursday, JKL beat Letterman by 50% among Adults 18-49 and NBC's Leno by 31%.
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