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  • Jay Leno really is helping NBC at the 10 p.m. time slot

    Jay Leno really is helping NBC at the 10 p.m. time slot

    I've heard good things about The Jay Leno Show recently, which might be why he's improving NBC's TiVo stats. Previous seasons NBC saw nearly 70% of its viewers timeshift during the 10 p.m. time slot. Leno has managed to improve that to only 46%, with 20% of those people watching the show at 11 p.m. instead. That number is actually great considering CBS and ABC have been running 65% and 63% respectively over the last two weeks Leno has been on the air. Maybe I should watch this show...

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  • Media companies freaking out because they don’t know how measure TV ratings anymore

    Media companies freaking out because they don’t know how measure TV ratings anymore

    So I read late last night that pretty much every TV show this summer has crashed and burned. You can attribute that any number of things. One, it's summer and no one watches TV then. Two, the shows were absolutely terrible. Three, maybe people were watching, but the proliferation of the likes of Hulu have totally messed with Hollywood's ability to actually count how many people watch its shows.

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