On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:56 PM, PGage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Data posted by AB today lead to the conclusion that NBC is averaging > 7.5 million viewers at the 10:00 hour (I had guestemated 7 million > last night). Leno would have to average around 5.5 million (5.64 > actually) to get to 75% of the current 10:00 pm viewership. I think > that is reasonable (remember, AB estimated that Leno would get 5.2 > million if he duplicates his percentage of HUT at 10:00 that he gets > at 11:35). AB thinks Leno will out perform current 10:00 shows on > Monday and Friday, and probably Thursday (compared not to ER, now on > its last legs, but to what he expects its replacement to do). He also > thinks Leno might do 10 Million on Thursdays during sweeps, with a 30 > Rock growing as a lead-in.
If advertisers will be happy with those numbers (and demographics) at the May upfronts, who are we to argue? As for drawing 10M for a Thursday in sweeps, I don't see how Leno could do it. That means doubling the number of viewers he gets now. Tom W --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
