Local NBC Viewers: We Watch Our Local News More Than Leno

Oh the jokes and comparisons have been flying about Glenn Beck being a Howard Beale character. Lest we forget, dear readers, Howard Beale in the nearly perfect film Network, was shot dead on live television because his ratings went down.

From WaPo:

Bucking an emerging — and for NBC potentially worrisome — national trend, local viewers have remained loyal to WRC’s 11 p.m. newscast despite the plunging audience for “The Jay Leno Show” in the hour preceding it.

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