Jimmy Fallon & Seth Meyers Take Late-Night Ratings Week of 4/11

NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and "Late Night with Seth Meyers" have delivered decisive wins for the late-night ratings week of April 11-15, topping their 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 CBS's lineup aired encores for the week and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" was in rebroadcast on Friday.

For the week, Fallon beat CBS's encores of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" in adult 18-49 rating by an +84% advantage (with a 0.81 rating vs. a 0.44) and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" by a +62% margin (0.81 vs. 0.50).

Meyers generated a +38% margin in 18-49 over CBS's encore "Late Late Show with James Corden" (0.40 vs. 0.29) and a +29% advantage over ABC's "Nightline" (0.45 vs. 0.35 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 30 of 30 weeks in both adults 18-49 and total viewers.

WEEK 30

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

11:35 p.m.-12:35 a.m.
Tonight...0.81/4...3.244 million
Late Sh (R)...0.44/2...2.157 million
Kimmel *...0.50/3...2.212 million

12:35-1:05 a.m.
Nightline...0.35/2...1.434 million

12:35-1:35 a.m.
Seth Meyers *...0.40/3...1.441 million
Late Late Sh (R)...0.29/2...1.161 million

1:35 a.m.-2:05 a.m.
Carson Daly (R)...0.24/2...0.804 million

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

SEASON AVERAGES

11:35 p.m.-12:35 a.m.
Tonight...1.05/5...3.803 million
Late Sh...0.67/3...2.915 million
Kimmel...0.56/3...2.413 million

12:35-1:05 a.m.
Nightline...0.37/2...1.551 million

12:35-1:35 a.m.
Seth Meyers...0.48/3...1.618 million
Late Late Show...0.33/2...1.273 million

1:35 a.m.-2:05 a.m.
Carson Daly...0.29/2...0.903 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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