Conan's "Tonight Show" could've been saved if young viewers had stayed
But young viewers, particularly young men, had been abandoning Conan's show. "If even a small fraction of the additional younger viewers who flocked to Mr. O’Brien’s show last week had turned up regularly in his earlier ratings results, he would almost surely still be hosting 'The Tonight Show,'" notes Bill Carter. "Instead, for most of this past fall, Mr. O’Brien struggled to command the young viewers he needed to counter a falloff in overall audience numbers." Problem is that grabbing the attention of young viewers, especially late at night, has become an increasingly daunting task.
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