It’s Official: ‘Conan’ Topped All Late-Night Shows In Its First Week
1.6 amongst adults 18-49 vs. 0.9 for Leno and Letterman. It being his opening week didn’t hurt or TBS or Team CoCo; on the opposite end of the pain spectrum, finishing the week with an average audience below 1 million has to be like an unmedicated trip to the dentist’s office for execs at NBC and CBS.
NY Times: CBS Talked of Paying ESPN to Pick Up NCAA Tournament
Instead they opted for a deal with Turner, which will split tourney games between Turner’s TBS, TNT and truTV and CBS, starting in 2016.
Memo to all of the NBC executives that I know read The Daily Bunch – drop what you are doing (cattily reading about Conan’s Fox deal) and do the following: Buy one courtside seat (or better yet, seat behind the Cornell bench) Book Ed Helms on a flight to Syracuse Apply facepaint and other fan […]
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