CBS’s Stephen Colbert Debut Beats Late-Night Rivals

Bloomberg: Stephen Colbert’s debut on CBS beat his late-night rivals and more than doubled the ratings from the “Late Show” season premiere a year earlier, according to Nielsen data cited by the network. “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” averaged 6.6 million viewers on Tuesday, and reached 12 percent of U.S. households who were watching TV at the time, CBS said. NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” averaged 2.9 million viewers and reached 6 percent while “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC averaged 1.8 million viewers and reached 3 percent of households.