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Despite repeats,Production of late-night talk shows is at a standstill as writers walk the picket lines, and all five of the late-night broadcast talk shows are in repeats this week. Not surprisingly, ratings are down for almost all of them.
Tuesday’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno was down 12 percent from the same night a week before, while Tonight Show with David Letterman slipped 11 percent, writes Media Life. Letterman’s lead-out, Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, dropped 13 percent.
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live was down 15 percent, even with the advantage of a fresh Nightline lead-in.
Late night with Conan O’Brien was the only late-night program not to decline.
ABC’s Nightline is likely to gain ratings points with the strike. News writers are not on the picket lines, so content will be fresh each night, and it will no longer face competition from Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, which is in repeats.
The Spanish Radio Association says Arbitron still has not addressed its concerns and research questions regarding the PPM and how “Hispanics are recruited and represented, and how the PPM panel is maintained.”
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CNN won its second night of coverage of the Democratic National Convention Tuesday. The network averaged 3.41 million viewers in the 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. time slot, despite the fact that Fox drew nearly even for the night.
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Generation Y is the most self-indulgent, Generation X is the most innovative, and Boomers are the most productive, while the “Silent Generation” and the “Greatest Generation” are the most admired, according to a recent survey by Harris Interactive, writes MarketingCharts.
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