Encores of NBC's TONIGHT and LATE NIGHT Win Late-Night Week in Every Key Measure

Encore telecasts of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and "Late Night with Seth Meyers" have dominated the late-night ratings week of April 18-22, topping their mostly original ABC and CBS time-period competition in every key measure - adults, men and women 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54, plus total viewers. Note that Friday's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and "Late Late Show with James Corden" were encores.

Fallon won five of five nights for the week versus CBS's "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and ABC's "Kimmel" in adults 18-49.

For the week, "Tonight" encores outscored Colbert in 18-49 by a +53% advantage (with a 0.75 rating vs. a 0.49) and Kimmel by a +63% margin (0.75 vs. 0.46).

Meyers' "Late Night" rebroadcasts generated a +29% margin in 18-49 over Corden (0.40 vs. 0.31) and a +36% advantage over ABC's "Nightline" (0.45 vs. 0.33 in their 12:30-1 a.m. head-to-head half-hour).

Season to date, Fallon and Meyers have outdelivered their ABC and CBS time-period competition for 31 of 31 weeks in both adults 18-49 and total viewers.

WEEK 31

Show...18-49...total viewers

11:35 p.m.-12:35 a.m.
Tonight (R)...0.75/4...2.765 million
Late Sh...0.49/2...2.556 million
Kimmel *...0.46/2...2.102 million

12:35-1:05 a.m.
Nightline...0.33/2...1.495 million

12:35-1:35 a.m.
Seth Meyers (R)...0.40/3...1.352 million
Late Late Sh *...0.31/2...1.253 million

1:35 a.m.-2:05 a.m.
Carson Daly (R)...0.26/2...0.845 million

* Friday's "Kimmel" and "Late Late Show" were encores.

SEASON AVERAGES

11:35 p.m.-12:35 a.m.
Tonight...1.05/5...3.783 million
Late Sh...0.66/3...2.911 million
Kimmel...0.55/3...2.403 million

12:35-1:05 a.m.
Nightline...0.37/2...1.550 million

12:35-1:35 a.m.
Seth Meyers...0.48/3...1.610 million
Late Late Show...0.33/2...1.275 million

1:35 a.m.-2:05 a.m.
Carson Daly...0.29/2...0.901 million

Ratings reflect "live plus same day" data from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise noted. Season-to-date figures are averages of "live plus seven day" data except for the two most recent weeks, which are "live plus same day."

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