How The WGA Strike Is Helping TV Newsmags

Matea Gold of the LATimes writes about how the WGA strike is already benefiting TV newsmagazines, especially Nightline. Gold writes, “During the first week of the writers strike, the usually third-place program drew the largest number of households, according to early Nielsen data of 56 metered markets. The newsmagazine pulled an average of 2.8 million households, while Letterman had 2.7 million and Leno had 2.6 million.”

“If the walk-out drags into next year,” Gold predicts “the prime-time schedule could be filled with NBC’s Dateline, ABC’s Primetime and CBS’ 48 Hours Mystery.”