The NBC experiment failed. The attempt to have Jay Leno restore leadership to their badly battered evening lineup – including their affiliated late news shows at 11:00 PM has bombed. Local stations were planning to drop the show. Advertising just wasn’t there. What went wrong?
Posts tagged ‘Letterman’
How Did Jay Leno Lose His Audience?
January 10th, 2010
Squirm You Worm – Squirm!
October 3rd, 2009
Hello Americans, David Letterman has a history of troubles. His ratings were always lower than Johnny Carson and then Jay Leno. For years an obsessed woman stalked his Connecticut home. After his son was born, a Montana painter plotted to kidnap the boy. Now debt-plagued CBS producer Robert “Joe” Halderman tried to blackmail Dave for [...]
Neglecting Your Duties Barack?
September 22nd, 2009
Mister Obama: It was beyond tacky that you appear on the David Letterman show – where just 103 days ago the presiding lefty clown called Governor Sarah Palin “slutty” and made a vulgar joke about her 14-year old daughter being “knocked up in the 7th inning by Yankee outfielder Alex Rodriguez”. A presidential appearance this [...]
Letterman’s Trifling “Apology”
June 15th, 2009
Late-night churl David Letterman finally “apologized” to the Palin family and his viewers tonight. Sort of. I stayed up to watch. I was hoping to acknowledge a man who had come to realize his error and who’d made a sincere apology. I really wanted to write something positive. It won’t be tonight. Lettermen delivered his [...]
Make a BIG Apology Letterman!
June 11th, 2009
cbsmailbag@aol.com TO: David Letterman CC: Rob Burnett, Barbara Gaines, Maria Pope Letterman, your constant harangue of Governor Sarah Palin wore thin months ago. Have your writers no better material? But your recent treatment of her 14-year old daughter was both despicable and cowardly. Just suppose – in a few short years – some late-night jerk [...]