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Boston’s NBC affiliate WHDH, channel 7, is telling NBC to shove the Jay Leno show at 10 o’clock.  They believe their local 10 p.m. news will draw in more viewers, and during the last sweeps period it (it’s sister station currently runs the news) only brought in 43,800 viewers – ouch!  That’s the bitch slap heard ’round the world.  Jay Leno grew up in Andover, Massachusetts.  And his parents still live there.

“We feel we have a real opportunity with running the news at 10 p.m. We don’t think the Leno show is going to be effective in primetime,” Ansin said yesterday. “It will be detrimental to our 11 o’clock. It will be very adverse to our finances.”
Ansin wants to air Leno’s new show at 11 p.m., but he said that NBC told him that “would not be feasible.” For now, Ansin doesn’t plan to air Leno at all, instead airing a local news show at 10 p.m., following it with the current news half-hour broadcast at 11; and airing Conan O’Brien’s show at 11:35 p.m. when it begins this summer.

NBC is threatening to pull its contract with the station and go somewhere else.  In fact, they are considering converting their Telemundo station, in Boston, and turning it into an NBC station.  LOL – I can’t wait to hear/see the riots that causes.  Hell hath no fury like a woman who can’t watch her telenovela.

Boston isn’t the only station affiliate that’s not too thrilled with the new Jay Leno Show.  Jay isn’t exactly a proven entity in prime time.  His demographics aren’t exactly that lucrative 18-49 year old male.  I’ve seen Jay Leno perform his standup, several times (unfortunately).  He performs weekly at the Comedy and Magic Club to try out new material.  It’s so quiet you can hear his butt cheeks slap together as they clench every time he tells a joke and no one laughs.

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