NBC Late Night Leads Ratings Competition for Week of 4/25

"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and "Late Night with Seth Meyers" have scored decisive wins for the late-night ratings week of April 25-29, topping their ABC and CBS time-period competition in all key measures - adults, men and women 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54, plus total viewers. Note that ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" was in rebroadcast on Friday.

For the week, Fallon beat both CBS's "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" in adult 18-49 rating by a +72% advantage (with a 0.81 rating vs. a 0.47 each for Colbert and Kimmel). Fallon maintained 100% of his 18-49 rating for "Tonight's" prior week of originals (0.81 vs. 0.81 for the week of April 11-15.

Meyers generated a +26% margin in 18-49 over CBS's "Late Late Show with James Corden" (0.39 vs. 0.31) and a +38% advantage over ABC's "Nightline" (0.44 vs. 0.32 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 32 of 32 weeks in both adults 18-49 and total viewers.

WEEKLY AVERAGES
(According to in-home viewing figures from Nielsen Media Research for the week of April 25-29. 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.")

ADULTS 18-49

11:35 p.m.-12:35 a.m. ET
NBC "Tonight" 0.81 rating, 4 share
CBS "Late Show," 0.47/2
ABC "Kimmel," 0.47/2 *

12:35-1:05 a.m. ET
ABC "Nightline," 0.32/2

12:35-1:35 a.m. ET
NBC "Late Night," 0.39/3 *
CBS "The Late Late Show," 0.31/2 *

1:35-2:05 a.m. ET
NBC "Last Call," 0.24/2*

TOTAL VIEWERS

11:35 p.m.-12:35 a.m. ET
NBC "Tonight," 3.145 million viewers
CBS "Late Show," 2.446 million viewers
ABC "Kimmel," 2.240 million viewers *

12:35-1:05 a.m. ET
ABC "Nightline," 1.456 million viewers

12:35-1:35 a.m. ET
NBC "Late Night," 1.387 million viewers*
CBS "The Late Late Show," 1.235 million viewers *

1:35-2:05 a.m. ET
NBC "Last Call," 0.783 million viewers*

* Friday's "Kimmel," "Late Night," "Late Late Show" and "Last Call" were encores.

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