Posted on 09/23/2015 1:10:09 PM PDT by jimbo123
Presidential hopefuls continue to be a boon for late-night television, with Donald Trump’s visit to “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” helping jump-start the nascent CBS program to its highest ratings since opening night.
In Nielsen’s 25 markets with Local People Meters, “Late Show” earned a 1.0 overnight rating in adults 18-49 to move up to a tie with NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” which had won the last nine nights outright. ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (0.6) ranked third.
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“Late Show” was up a big 42% vs. the comparable night a year ago, and Tuesday’s 3.7 is well above the show’s average (2.64) in the nights since its big premiere did a 4.9 on Sept. 8. The 3.7 overnight rating is also a tick above the 3.6 that “Tonight Show” did when Trump visited on Sept. 11 (a Friday), while its 18-49 prelim rating was a bit below what the NBC program did that night (1.0 vs. 1.2).
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Colbert looked like he was trying to pet a pit bulldog that had just eaten a bowl of gunpowder.
Hey, Dan Quayle wasn’t nationally known in ‘88 either. But, I was just funnin’ around. That would really scorch Cochran’s and Barbour’s drawers.
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