Quote Originally Posted by David88vert View Post

Conan was give a show with higher ratings than Letterman. In 2 months, it had lower ratings.
Evidently, the ratings were bad enough that it affected advertiser revenue enough to warrant paying Conan 40 million to leave. That's pretty bad in my book.

Questin: How was the audience split by Leno if he was off the air by 11pm? Do you believe that his old audience that watched him all of those years, just suddenly decided to go to bead earlier? That does not make logical sense.

Suddenly, Leno is back on and NBC is back in front of Letterman. That audience must have woken up from their nap.
I think the audience for Conan and Leno are really different and that one does not appeal to the other as much thus causing the die-hard Leno fans to "get their fill" of him at the earlier slot thus leaving Conan out in the wind. As for ratings... I wouldn't be surprised if there is more to it than "ratings"....though the R-word is a great excuse to move things around. As all this was going on, I've seen more people talkign about Conan that I've ever seen talk about Leno. Maybe it's demographics, but I've seen pro-CoCo propaganda everywhere....and have yet to see a single thing promoting Leno to get is slot back.


Bottom line- Jimmy Falon SUCKS.