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Friday, May 22, 2015

Big Numbers For Letterman's Goodbye

The final Late Show with David Letterman last night drew its biggest audience for CBS since February 1994, when the show was goosed by the network's Winter Olympics lead-in.Preliminary numbers show the broadcast pulled 13.76M viewers, the fourth-best performance for the show, driven by heavy viewership in New York and Chicago.
  • The 3.1 rating in adults 18-49 is its best since Oprah Winfrey guested in December 2005.
  • Just last year, Jay Leno's exit from NBC's Tonight Show drew 14.64M viewers and a 3.8 rating in adults 18-49. 
Stephen Colbert will replace Letterman in the show's time slot in the fall.The other implication for the CBS late-night lineup: With Letterman's exit as a lead-in, The Late Late Show with James Corden -- which has been building an audience for its new host this spring -- got its best-ever viewership, 4.01M viewers (1.1M 18-49, 1.4M 25-54).

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