Illinois Senate debate outdraws Leno, Letterman

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Go Chicago! People paying attention:

October 21, 2010
BY LEWIS LAZARE Media & Marketing Columnist

For one night only at least, U.S. Senate candidates Republican Mark Kirk and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias were the new stars of late-night television in Chicago.

A 10:35 p.m. debate between the two on WLS-Channel 7 handily beat two well-known late-night talkers in the overnight Nielsen TV ratings in the Chicago market.

he debate hosted by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos scored a 5.0 rating (175,000 households).

That easily beat the 2.8 rating (98,000) "The David Letterman Show" pulled on WBBM-Channel 2 and the 2.5 rating (87,500) for "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on WMAQ-Channel 5.

http://www.suntimes.com/business/lazare/2822016,CST-NWS-debate21.article

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1. There may be some hope for democracy . . . . .

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2. And It Was Funnier

Especially more than Leno (is he still recycling Clinton jokes??).

The debate was a joke as it was nothing more than a bunch of "journalists" playing can you top this to get the candidates to trash one another.