NBC Ratings Still Good After Olympics

March 9th, 2010 admin

Sure the wall-to-wall Winter Olympics left a lot of people wondering why they should give half-a-crap about ice dancing, but NBC has bounced back with its post-Olympic lineup . NBC’s two new prime time series, ‘Parenthood’ and ‘The Marriage Ref,’ won the ratings game against their competitors, and even Jay Leno’s triumphant return to ‘The Tonight Show’ beat David Letterman’s ‘Late Show.’ Of course, this is just the premiere week for these shows and it’s not known if they can retain the numbers that have helped them back into first place for the first time in a good long while. At least the executives can breathe a little easier and Jeff Zucker can rest assured that he won’t be losing his job anytime soon as opposed to maybe losing his job by some …


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