Nightline Beats Dave, 3 Weeks In A Row

Nightline “has beaten ‘Late Show With David Letterman’ three weeks in a row — most impressively this past week, when Dave was not in reruns,” Aaron Barnhart notes. “Not only that, it beat Letterman by a hair in the demo as well.” Here are all the #’s.

The JonBenet arrest definitely helped the news mag’s ratings, B&C adds. “It has been more than three years since the last time Nightline beat Letterman for straight three weeks, back in was May 2003…”