56. "You keep forgetting that Jay was fired from the 10PM slot" In response to In response to 55
b/c of horrible ratings, which caused the mess.
By the way, for Conan's time with NBC, guess how many time's he lost the ratings war with Letterman?
5 weeks out of 35, and only twice was the difference greater than .1
Despite "losing to Dave" for those 5 weeks, Conan was pulling in better ratings during late night "offseason" than Jay can pull in during the regular season. Higher ratings = more $$$ from advertisers, no matter who is "winning the late night war". Which means that NBC is losing money on this with Jay b/c of the lower ratings
Again, Conan brought in bigger key demo numbers in the OFFSEASON with a RATINGS ABYSS lead-in by Leno's awful 10PM show.