It is really hard to find ratings numbers for late night shows, a huge difference from when I used to follow these numbers closely during Conan’s Tonight Show. I did find this though from Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2022/09/30/how-late-night-talk-ratings-cratered-during-trevor-noahs-daily-show-era/ Noah averaged 1.1M viewers his first season (2015-16), while Fallon was at 3.8M and Colbert 3.2M. Forbes does not give average ratings for the entire 2021-22 season, just for August, which obviously is not very typical. They have Noah at 383K, Colbert at 2.16M, and Fallon at 1.34M (Kimmel was 1.1M and Gutfield at 2.2M but I am not focusing on either as their August 2022 ratings even more anomalous than the others). Forbes has Colbert with *only* a 31% decline in ratings from 2015, while Noah and Fallon are both around 65% decline. Those decline percentages are probably an overestimate since they are based on low viewership August numbers only for 2022, but they give a sense of the magnitude of the changing environment. No matter how hot Noah is with the demo and viral videos, his TV numbers are low and falling, and CC can not make money paying him $16M. I will be shocked if whoever replaces him is paid more than $5M, and not surprised if it is less than that. CBS is probably still making a profit at 11:35, but NBC is likely only doing slightly better than breaking even. All of these guys will make less on their next contract than they do now, which is pretty much the point at which people move on to other gigs. On Fri, 30 Sep 2022 at 12:21 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > Nope, just the usual suspects about a particular show (e.g. recent claims > by Gutfeld) or Futon Critic whom just has the big nets' 11.35 folks (Kimmel > took the latest round) > B > > Steve Timko, to M-D November et al, Sept 30th: > >> Anyone have current ratings for all late night shows? >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/24b096ac-bc71-4b69-a08b-e1f6abeacb9bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/24b096ac-bc71-4b69-a08b-e1f6abeacb9bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BZC6fTod7J2NoEpQhc%3D5NgkdQWjWer0ca2SPz_222KAQ%40mail.gmail.com.
