Late Night Ratings: Sept. 1 - 26, 2014

ABC and CBS saw strong growth for the first week of the 2014-15 TV season. THE LATE SHOW, on CBS, grew over 800,000 viewers, week-to-week, and jumped 50% in the A18-49 ratings. it is the best numbers Letterman has produced in quite a while.

THE LATE LATE SHOW also had a good week, beating LATE NIGHT in total viewers. Between it's growth and LATE NIGHT's decline, week-to-week, pushed CBS to a win between the two talk shows. However, when you throw NIGHTLINE in the mix, It had the most viewers, with 1.8 million.

JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! posted one its best season premiere numbers ever, growing over 400,000 viewers from the previous week. The 0.7 demo ratings is also the best week have seen over the summer.

NBC was still the #1 network in late night, but both THE TONIGHT SHOW ans LATE NIGHT had significant declines in the ratings, pulling numbers below the current 4 week average.

Series	Category	09/22	09/15	09/08	09/01	AVG
Tonight Show NBC	Viewers*	3.87	4.22	3.87	3.82	3.95
	A18-49	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1
Late Show CBS	Viewers*	2.74	2.11	2.48	2.40	2.43
	A18-49	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.5
Conan TBS	Viewers*	0.84	0.93	1.01	0.78	0.89
	A18-49	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4
Jimmy Kimmel ABC	Viewers*	2.89	2.48	2.23	2.45	2.51
	A18-49	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.6
Late Night NBC	Viewers*	1.50	1.69	1.60	1.68	1.62
	A18-49	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5
Late Late Show CBS	Viewers*	1.51	1.26	1.26	1.26	1.32
	A18-49	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3
Nightline ABC	Viewers*	1.78	1.51	1.41	1.56	1.57
	A18-49	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4

* - in millions