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LessAspin

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Thu Jan 30, 2025, 05:47 PM Jan 30

📈📺 Late-night TV Ratings 📺📉

Is Scott Van Pelt a contender in the battle for late night supremacy?
His viewership so far this year has kept pace with traditional late night shows


According to ESPN PR, SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt is averaging 1.5 million viewers per episode in the month of January, up 37% versus January of 2024. That’s the show’s best month since December of 2017, when SVP still anchored from ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. ... .. ... .

1.5 million viewers on average puts SVP firmly in the ballpark of network late night hosts like Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel.

In 2024, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon averaged just 1.37 million viewers on NBC according to data from audience measurement firm Nielsen. Jimmy Kimmel Live! notched an average of 1.77 million viewers on ABC. And The Late Show with Stephen Colbert secured the largest audience in late night with an average of 2.57 million viewers on CBS. ..... .

https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/scott-van-pelt-contender-late-night-supremacy.html
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📈📺 Late-night TV Ratings 📺📉 (Original Post) LessAspin Jan 30 OP
Colbert should be good tonight. Don't know about Van Pelt, but Kimmel, Fallon, and Colbert have been ripping trump Silent Type Jan 30 #1

Silent Type

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1. Colbert should be good tonight. Don't know about Van Pelt, but Kimmel, Fallon, and Colbert have been ripping trump
Thu Jan 30, 2025, 05:58 PM
Jan 30

relentlessly. They say the things that newscasters seldom do.

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