LATE NIGHT LAUGHS - ratings

In the past few months Late Night has seen a big change with the change of hosts on NBC's "Late Night" and change is show format with NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly. However all that matters are the ratings that follow. NBC has been the ratings king being led by "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. When Conan O'Brien held the reign of Late Night succeeding David Letterman (after CBS promised him an earlier time slot back in the early 90's) has been in a ratings fight with CBS's the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. However recently Jimmy Fallon came in to take over "Late Night" as Conan prepares to host the "Tonight Show" as Jay prepares to how the "Jay Leno Show" in the fall on NBC at 10pm. WOW LOTS OF CHANGES. BUT THATS NOT IT. Carson Daly has decided to take his show on the road, thus changing the format of his show. There has been a lot of positive reaction to the change in format. Now back to Jimmy Fallon and his ratings. In the first couple of week Fallon topped Ferguson with over two million viewers versus Ferguson's 1.9 million. Also Fallon has been able to retain at least 50% of Leno's audience. However in May Fallon's numbers cooled as his ratings began to decline. During the week of May 8th Ferguson beat Fallon in total viewers and virtually tied Fallon in the key demographics. WTF happened?! Well IDK, if the episodes that appeared during the week of May 8th were repeat episodes than ok! New numbers are out and heres the break down:

11:35pm
NBC's Tonight Show 5.0 million viewers
ABC's Nightline 3.8 million Viewers
CBS's Late Show 3.7 million viewers

*Notice Night Line a news division of ABC news is beating David Letterman's show. CBS's competition at that time is mostly with ABC. However when Conan takes over in June will there be a ratings change? Will the Tonight Show lose viewers? I think the first night there will be interest to see what Conan does. If he hits it out of the park then the Tonight Show will continue to beat ABC and CBS. However if he dosen't Letterman could see a possible chance at stealing away O'Brien's audience.*

12:35am
NBC's Late Night 2.1 million viewers
CBS's Late Late Show 1.9 million viewers
ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live 1.7 million viewers
*note Kimmel's show begins at midnight exactly*

1:35am
NBC's Last Call 1.1 million viewers

CABLE RATINGS

The Daily Show 1.5 million viewers
The Colbert Report 1.1 million viewers

Imagine if Stewart and Colbert where on basic TV, their ratings would be huge!

NBC's Saturday Night Live also had a huge ratings gain! it had 7.3 million viewers
*note Fox's Mad tv has been canceled....

NBC's TODAY is high ratings day

The Today show continues to dominate its competition. Today led with 5.7 million followed by ABC's Good Morning America 4.3 million and CBS's the early show had 2.9 million viewers. Now what about Cable news. Well no mater how you look at it, Cable news combined would still be behind NBC's Today Show. Fox news "Fox and Friends 1 million viewers. CNN's American Morning had 393,000 viewers. MSNBC's "Morning Joe had 360,000 viewers. Headline News' Morning Express with Robin Meade had 247,000 viewers. CNBC's Squawk Box had 162,000 viewers. Fox Business Channel's Money for breakfast had no numbers but my guess is that is had less than 15,000 viewers because its widely unavailable and the recent numbers came out long ago. FBN has a long way to go if it wants to catch CNBC.

MEET THE PRESS, meet huge ratings

MEET THE PRESS continues its domination of the sunday morning public affairs forum. MEET THE PRESS had 3.2 million viewers tune in. I like those numbers because David Gregory is doing a great job. He has had tough shoes to fill that of Tim Russert and interm host Tom Brokaw. Gregory continues to use his tough questioning approach which makes it more fasinating to watch each week. Gregory's first show on MSNBC "Race for the White House" greatly improved the 6pm timeslot of the former MSNBC host/contributor Tucker Carlson's "Tucker, Live". On MSNBC he followed the dame ratings trend of increasing each week. His first show averaged over 500,000 viewers. As the elections approached the ratings went higher however the network at 6pm still remained in 3rd place behind CNN's the situation room and way behind Fox news' special report. Despite the moderate ratings gain I believe Gregory's debut as a host really prepared him for the full time job of MEET THE PRESS. I will continue to watch the show because Gregory always has interesting guest and a variety of people to fill in his roundtable. I don't quiet like ABC's "This Week" because the roundtable portion of the show features the same people with the same point of view. CBS' "Face the Nation" is ABC's competition because on occasion Face the nation sometimes beats This Week. As for Fox's "Fox News Sunday", WTF happened to that show?! The ratings are horrible, it used to beat ABC before now its the least watched sunday morning public affairs forum. Perhaps people find a distained distrust among the Fox news family. Besides only conservatives watch Fox, liberals watch ABC and moderates like me watch MEET THE PRESS. AGAIN thats my opinion. Heres the full ratings break down from last week:

show audience size
NBC's MEET THE PRESS 3.3 million
ABC's THIS WEEK 2.8 million
CBS's FACE THE NATION 2.1 million
Fox's Fox News Sunday 1.3 million