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Originally Posted by icecube
Did they chose Jay at 10pm though? I thought his ratings were in the toilet which is what caused this whole fiasco in the first place.
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I've heard that his numbers at 10 were roughly the same as what he was pulling in at 11:35 (which is what NBC expected, and were okay with until the affiliates threatened to revolt).
The problem was that being a lead-in to the news, those numbers weren't acceptable to the local affiliates because the local news is the affiliates' main source of local revenue and their news ratings had dropped significantly because of Leno's lead-in.