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Originally Posted by RW99
Exactly. The crowd that watches Leno are are getting older, so they followed him to the earlier slot so they can get to bed earlier. Short of having a very specific person that can draw in a very large amount of viewers, this would have happened to anyone that took over that slot.
I can't remember how Leno/Letterman did in their early days, but I'm sure at least one of them had low ratings less than a year in to their gigs. They need to give Conan some time to build his audience. I really can't see them dropping him this quickly.
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Leno was really low, after about a year he changed the whole set and replaced the original band leader with Kevin Eubanks and then steadily moved up.