via press release
Fringe Ratings Report: ABC Late-Night Programming
Week of November 2, 2009
Growing in Adults 18-49 for the 3rd Week in a Row, ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Draws is Largest Young Adult Audience Since Premiere Week
For the First Time Ever, “JKL” Outperforms “Fallon” for the Week in Adults 18-49, While Topping the NBC Program in Viewers by its Largest Margin Ever
“JKL” Betters “Ferguson” Among Adults 18-34 for the 2nd Time in 3 Weeks
With Guests Elizabeth Mitchell, Jesse Williams and Florence and the Machine,
“JKL’s” Thursday Telecast Attracts the Show’s Largest Audience Since June
Weekly National Ratings:
For the week of November 2, 2009, ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” saw its Adults 18-49 audience (720,000) grow over the previous week for the 3rd week in a row, registering the ABC late-night program’s largest young adult audience since premiere week 6 weeks ago – wo 9/21/09.
- For the first time ever, “JKL” outperformed NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” for the week in Adults 18-49 (720,000 vs. 712,000). In addition, “JKL” topped “Fallon” by 35% in Total Viewers (1.70 million vs. 1.26 million), bettering the NBC late night program in viewers for the 7th week in a row, all 7 weeks of the 2009-10 TV season. Season to date, “JKL” is outdrawing NBC’s “Fallon” by 22% in Total Viewers (1.69 million vs. 1.39 million).
- “Jimmy Kimmel Live” bettered CBS’ “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” among Adults 18-34 (295,000 vs. 233,000) for the 2nd time in 3 weeks. “JKL” also bested “Ferguson” among Women 18-34 (155,000 vs. 120,000), Women 18-49 (420,000 vs. 396,000) and Men 18-34 (140,000 vs. 113,000).
- On Thursday (11/5/09), featuring Elizabeth Mitchell (“V”), Jesse Williams (“Grey’s Anatomy”) and musical guest Florence and the Machine, “JKL” posted its strongest performance in Total Viewers (2.02 million) for any “Kimmel” telecast since June – since 6/11/09. Additionally, it was “JKL’s” 2nd-highest Adults 18-49 telecasts (874,000) of the season.
Source: NTI, National Live + Same Day Program Ratings, week of 11/2/09, or as dated. Season-to-date averages based on Most Current Ratings. 2009-10 TV Season (9/21 – 11/08/09)
Fringe Ratings Report: ABC Late-Night Programming
Kimmel’s show is just awful, whether it beats Fallon or not. It’s amazing how it’s still on the air and the spinning ABC does is too funny. Have some balls ABC and kick Kimmel to the kurb! There’s greener pastures at a lower cost than that piece of crapola money pit of a show!
It’s true the Kimmel is awful. But Fallon is the worst so called ‘talent’ to ever get his own show. He’s so pathetic!
I love that two people who despise both of these shows that the article discusses both found it necessary to leave a comment. I watch both shows but if I had to pick one, it’d be Kimmel. He’s the funnier personality and host with the funnier writing staff plain and simple. Fallon’s show is more “fun” and DVR-friendly (I get to skip all the BS stuff involving the audience).
I’m not sure on the scheduling everywhere, but where I live Kimmel starts at 11, Fallon at 11:30, and Ferguson at 12:00.