THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT is the Only Late Night Program to Grow Audience from Last Year

CBS's THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT was the only late night program to grow its audience over a year ago, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Nov. 11. Note: All programs were preempted Tuesday for election coverage.

THE LATE SHOW averaged 2.63 million viewers, up +11% compared to the same week last year. Wednesday's post-election broadcast averaged 2.81m, the show's largest audience since Oct. 21.

Across digital and social platforms, THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT experienced one of its best weeks ever. On CBS.com and the CBS App, unique users and visits were up triple digit percentage points over the show's weekly average, and full episode streams were up double digit percentage points over the season average.

In addition, total views across both Youtube and Facebook also increased by triple digit percentage points over the previous week, with clips including Don't Move to Canada Just Yet and Stephen Tries to Make Sense of All This on YouTube, as well as LIVE Election Night Screaming Booth on Facebook.

THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT, a production of The Late Show Inc., airs weeknights (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Stephen Colbert, Chris Licht, Tom Purcell and Jon Stewart are the executive producers.

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