tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/3/2008
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David Letterman on CBS, above, averaged 4.7 million viewers on Wednesday, about a million fewer than Jay Leno on NBC. (J.P. Filo/CBS)
Although David Letterman had writers on Wednesday night and Jay Leno officially did not, Mr. Leno managed to draw the higher ratings, as he normally does, according to initial Nielsen Media Research ratings.
Mr. Leno, [...]
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Writerlessness Beats Writers, For Now
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... The New York Times' TV Decoder blog has last night's late-night ratings , and for one night anyway, it looks as if David Letterman would have been better off making a deal for his writers not to come back. Jay Leno beat him in the ratings, 5.8 million to 4.7 million viewers, and increased his average viewership 47 percent to Letterman's 39 percent. Given that the whole point of Letterman's WGA side deal was to prove that writers are, um, worth something, isn't this a bad thing for the writers? Not really--not yet. (Keep in mind that I am paid to write for a living, of ...
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