washingtonpost.com - 11/17/2007
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Perhaps you've seen all the stories bravely forecasting that "Nightline's" ratings would be up for last week -- the first week of the Hollywood writers' strike, which immediately plunged David Letterman, Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert's talkers into reruns. USA Today, for instance, quoted "Nightlin...
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Television Watching: Fox Porn, Rather, Srike, Rural Imus
Gothamist —
... The Writers Guild of America strike gave ABC News’ Nightline a ratings boost (up about 300,000) last week while the late night shows that rely on writers were purging many viewers, with one exception – The Late Show with David Letterman. The repeats of the Midtown based talk show won the late night race last week. ...
Washington Post reports on late night television ratings for the first week of the strike
No Fact Zone —
... According to the Washington Post, apparently the strike is having an effect on the late night numbers, as everyone figured it would. I’m sure that on any rerun week of any show - late night talk show or otherwise - the numbers do drop. While I’d like to think that the audience is choosing en masse to support the writers by not watching the reruns, the truth is that new episodes bring in lots of viewers, and reruns don’t. So hopefully no one over at Viacom will let this rattle their cages too much. This news from the Washington Post makes me ...
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