Jay Leno set the stage for his Tonight Show takeover years before he eavesdropped on NBC executives from a closet. His ascension to King of Late Night started when he refused to team up with other ...
In Nielsen’s 56 metered markets (New York and Chicago currently excluded), household results were: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” 3.1/8; CBS’s “Late Show with David Letterman,” 2.3/6 with an encore ...