CBS Q4 2019 Live+7 Late Night Ratings Release: October - December, 2019

For the fourth quarter of 2019 (late September – December 2019) with Nielsen live plus 7-day ratings, THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT beat its closest competition (“The Tonight Show”) by +83% in viewers (3.69m versus 2.02m). THE LATE SHOW was also tops in adults 25-54 (0.7 versus 0.6 for “Tonight”) and in adults 18-49 (0.5 versus 0.4 for “Tonight”). This marks the first fourth quarter THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT is in sole possession of first place in both adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 rating.

Program                 Viewers          A25-54          A18-49
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Late Show               3.69m             0.7               0.5

Tonight Show            2.02m             0.6               0.4

JK Live!                1.95m             0.5               0.3

Also during the fourth quarter, THE LATE SHOW was the #1 show in late night for current content on YouTube (clips posted during the 2019 calendar year) with 343 million views. In addition, THE LATE SHOW was the #1 show in late night in views of current content for all of 2019 with 1.4 billion views. (Source: Tubular Labs)