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We at TV Squad have been accused of having an bias against Jay Leno. That might be true; after all, our writers are free to post their opinions on any and all news stories, and my guess is that most of our staff are not big Leno fans (in fact, Bob has said many, many, many times how much he dislikes Jay).

But, one thing we’ve never denied is that the man can get an audience at 11:35. And, if anyone was fretting that Leno’s audience wouldn’t follow him back to ‘The Tonight Show,’ you needn’t have worried.

According to Media Life Magazine (via TVWeek), Leno averaged 4.2 million viewers per night last week. Yes, that’s one million viewers less than he had a year ago, but it’s still a million more than Letterman, whose ‘Late Show’ has lost about 900,000 viewers since Leno came back. And Leno’s pulling almost 1.5 million more viewers than Conan did.

So, why did most of the viewers come back so soon? Four reasons come to mind:

Continue reading Four Reasons Why Leno Got His Audience Back So Fast

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