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Nine years ago, ABC brass were ready to dump Nightline for David Letterman. Boy, aren’t today’s bigwigs at the company happy that didn’t happen. The veteran ABC newsmagazine beat both CBS’ Late Show With David Letterman and NBC’s The Tonight Show With Jay Leno among adults 18-49 during premiere week for the first time ever. Nightline, which airs from 11:35 PM-midnight, saw its audience grow 7% vs. last fall to 3.9 million. In adults 19-49, it averaged 1.3 million, even with last year. Its companion, Jimmy Kimmel Live was also strong out of the gate, drawing its second-largest premiere week audience ever (1.8 million) and 790,000 adults 18-49, up 5%.
In comparison, NBC’s Tonight Show With Jay Leno and CBS’ Late Show With David Letterman were neck-and-neck in 18-49 (1.07 million vs. 1.05 million) but both down double-digits, 20% (Leno) and 16% (Letterman). In total viewers, Leno (3.6 million) was off by 4%, Letterman (3.2 million) by 15%. CBS’ ratings declines carried over to the 12:35 AM shows. Somewhat surprisingly, NBC’s younger-skewing Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, which has had a great year capped by a first ever best music/comedy/variety series Emmy nomination, was down 16% in 18-49 to 695,000. CBS’ Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (607,000) was down a more modest 7%. NBC was hurt by a weaker prime time lead-in heading into local news. The network averaged a 2 demo rating in the 10:30 half-hour last week, vs. a 2.7 for ABC and CBS.
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Can Leno and put Jimmy Fallon in his place! He is so much more “today” and with it! Jay just go drive off into the sunset already!!
Who cares? They all suck when compared to Craig Ferguson.
No surprise here. Both Jay and Dave have been earning themselves some bad blood with audiences over the last couple of years.
As for NBC, this is just more fallout of their bonehead decision to screw with the schedule and give up on Conan. Fallon just plains sucks, and should have never been offered that gig.
Conan’s show on TBS is tanking. Are you kidding?
Bullshit. It’s doing just fine with the demo.
These are the people who night after night, month after month year after year pummeled George W. Bush and hailed Barack Obama as the second coming. They are partially suffering blow back (pun intended). Just as a number of blow hards in Hollywood will suffer at the box office.
Has anyone seen an issue of Time or Newsweek lately? Their liberal leaning pages are thinner than a dinner menu. Remember Newsweek’s famous pronouncement following Obama’s coronation? “We Are All Socialist Now!” People across the country are waking up to the poliical bias and the left wing agenda that permeates the entertainment industry and the journalist community. There will be a bigger price to pay in the next few years. People are beginning to realize they’ve been “sold a bill of goods” and they know who was largely to blame.
I’m always curious when I see these posts citing “leftists” and “liberals” – they’re almost like code words used to prevent being labeled as prejudiced – or, dare I say, small-minded.
If you can read a post about declining ratings for network television and conclude the cause is related to a rejection by “non-leftist” and “non-liberal” viewers, you have made a leap in connective tissue that I would guess cannot be comprehended by anyone that doesn’t already have the same agenda as you. Now take your small mind and very specific, off-topic purpose for being here and GET OUT!
You can discount my assertion all you want, but there is a pattern developing and many people I know personally are making deliberate choices in what they read and what they watch.
But instead of attempting to counter my assertion, you resort to name calling and wish to silence me. Thank you for once again highlighting the modus operandi of the left. Silence all speech that you disagree with and attack your opponent. As Herman Cain states, libs live by the rule of SIN:
S hift the subject
I gnore the facts
N ame call your opponent.
Thanks for the confirmation.
I think you’ll find this has nothing to do with left or right, but with the increasing options of the “a la carte” offerings of cable and the internet. The main stream media is floundering because it’s competing for an audience instead of reporting the news.
And where are all the Co-Co Conan people now? His show is tanking. Do they still think that NBC’s decision had to do with anything but money?
What did you get fired by Conan or something? You sound like you have a real axe to grind…
Golly-gee, more right-wing BS. Leno is as conservative as they come. Schwarzenegger announced his run for Governor on Leno for Chrissakes. Leno told no Bush/Cheney jokes until they were damn near out of office. Palin and McCain were both guests on Leno (even while McCain bailed on Letterman).
Could it be that Leno and Letterman’s stranglehold on late-night is coming to an end? Simple as that. No partisan BS. I mean they’re both old guys.
Not that Coco was the answer. I loved his Tonight Show (I don’t have cable), but honestly, Fallon is on fire now.
I think Coco might have survived at 11:35 had NBC not panicked, though. It was borne out when Leno’s post-return numbers were the same as Coco’s.
Co Co Conan people are there. He’s got a steady fanbase. You keep saying his ratings are tanking. Remember Jay Leno show that got cancelled? Nobody cared about that show. Jay Leno is not funny. He doesn’t know how to interact with the guests either. Jimmy Fellan sucks and he has too many stupid games.
Since when his show is tanking? Source? I googled it, and i could not find any TANKING information.
There could be several issues as to why late-night talk shows aren’t doing so well:
(1) “Nightline” has benefited this year from some big news stories over the past few months (the death of Bin Laden, the Casey Anthony trial, the debt ceiling crisis, and will probably benefit big-time from both the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor and the beginning of the 2012 Presidential campaign).
(2) Cable continues to eat away at broadcast viewership.
(3) People are getting up earlier in the morning, mainly because of longer commutes and earlier start times for their jobs. Many people can’t stay up as late into the night as they used to. That eats into late-night talk-show viewership, especially Mondays through Thursdays.
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is (for me) the funniest, most orginal show going. You just never know what’s going to happen! It’s a talk show with a touch of SNL & bar games thrown in. Nothing boring or old school here. Fallon & his writers are raising the late night bar. It doesn’t hurt to have the best house band in the world either. The Roots compliment the show and everything that goes on. I live in California and DVR the show every night. Then get my Fallon fix when I get home from work!
Craig Ferguson is the greatest since Johnny Carson.
I’m totally amazed than anyone would sit still for the Kimmel show on regular TV. Too much of it is like the daytime TV of an earlier era (when Letterman was just starting out in Indiana). He has entertaining bits like the animated cartoons with different dialogue, but all the costumed “superhero” stuff and the supposed Hispanic security guard are not funny and that goes double for Aunt Chippy. So I just record the first twenty minutes and FF through the dreck.