JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! Draws Its Largest Audience This Season

During the week of Nov. 12, 2018, ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" was up over the prior week by 16% in Total Viewers (2.262 million vs. 1.955 million) to draw its largest audience so far this season and its biggest since the first week of June - since the week of 6/4/18. In addition, "Kimmel" grew for the 3rd consecutive week among Adults 18-49 (+9% - 540,000 vs. 496,000) to its 2nd-best performance this season, behind only the show's Back to Brooklyn week (w/o 10/15/18).

Featuring a second visit by former first lady Michelle Obama on Thursday (11/15/18), "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" scored its best performance on any night in late-night in 5 months in both Total Viewers (2.722 million) and Adults 18-49 (754,000) - since an NBA Finals-led broadcast on Friday, 6/8/18.

ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" ran neck and neck with CBS" "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" among Adults 18-49 (with just 10,000 viewers between the two programs - 540,000 vs. 550,000), and with NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" in Total Viewers (with less than 40,000 viewers separating the two shows - 2.262 million vs. 2.301 million). In fact, this week marked the ABC late-night program's closest finish this season with NBC's "Fallon."

PROGRAM AVERAGES Total Viewers A18-49 (000)

ABC's "Kimmel" 2,262,000 540,000

CBS' "Colbert" 3,020,000 550,000

NBC's "Fallon" 2,301,000 627,000

Source: The Nielsen Company, Live + Same Day National Program Ratings for the weeks of 11/12/18 & 11/5/18 or as dated.

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