NEW YORK This bodes well for NBC’s plan to make Jay Leno a nightly primetime fixture once his Tonight Show incumbency has ended: A Harris Poll released this week shows respondents enshrining Leno as their “favorite TV personality.” Runner-up was Hugh Laurie, with Ellen DeGeneres — last year’s top vote-getter — coming in third.
Oprah Winfrey, who occupied the top spot in this annual poll during much of the decade, comes in at No. 4. Rather than indicating a loss of popularity on her part, this may mean many people now regard Winfrey as some sort of national institution rather than as a mere “TV personality.”
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