Broadcast
'The Tonight Show' And 'Late Night' Dominate Timeslot Competition In Fourth Quarter
Broadcast
'The Tonight Show' And 'Late Night' Dominate Timeslot Competition In Fourth Quarter
Jan 04, 2016
New York, NY
Fallon wins in all key measures while Meyers stretches lead in 18-49 over Corden. Meyers retained 100 percent of his year-ago 18-49 rating.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has delivered a dominant ratings win for the fourth quarter of 2015, outscoring CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live in every key measure — adults, men and women 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54, plus total viewers.
In 2014 and 2015, Fallon has delivered Tonight’s two highest-rated fourth quarters in adults 18-49 since 2008. His 1.10 rating this year and 1.17 rating during the year-ago quarter are Tonight’s two best in a fourth quarter since 2008 (1.34).
At 12:35 a.m. ET, Late Night with Seth Meyers also dominated the quarter, stretching his margin over CBS’s Late Late Show with James Corden to +50 percent in adults 18-49 (with a 0.51 rating versus a 0.34), up from last year’s +46 percent (0.51 vs. 0.35). Meyers also increased his advantage over ABC’s Nightline in their head-to-head half-hour from 12:30-1 a.m. ET to +47 percent (0.56 vs. 0.38 for that half-hour), up from the year-ago +39 percent (0.57 vs. 0.41).
Meyers retained 100 percent of his year-ago 18-49 rating for the fourth quarter (0.51 vs. 0.51) and grew +4 percent in total viewers (1.658 million vs. 1.588 million), +3 percent in adults 25-54 (0.65 vs. 0.63) and +11 percent in men 25-54 (0.61 vs. 0.55).
At 1:35 a.m. ET, Last Call with Carson Daly generated a +4 percent increase in total viewers versus the fourth quarter of 2015 (921,000 vs. 888,000) and was also up +3 percent in adults 25-54 (0.39 vs. 0.38) and +9 percent in men 25-54 (0.36 vs. 0.33).
Meyers concluded the fourth quarter with a 0.45 rating for encore telecasts during the holiday week of Dec. 21-25 (all Thursday and Friday telecasts were preempted or excluded), to tie that week’s rebroadcasts of Colbert (0.45) and finish within 0.04 of a point of the week’s Kimmel encores (0.49), despite Meyers’ start time one hour later.
