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According to the greater modern ratings facts, the shortcoming of "The Jay Leno Show" seems to be engaging a whacking big piece unconfined of the in peculiar information theatergoers on Jacksonville's by NBC network by branch.

The November ratings facts compiled at hand by Nielsen Co. by bear out that WTLV TV-12's ratings on the 11 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. days on Monday help of Friday dropped quickly from 6.5 in November 2008 to 4.9 in November 2009.

The ratings register the proportion of all video receiver households in the Jacksonville make available that are watching a program.

All four Jacksonville stations that publish peculiar information baffled viewers on weeknights at 11 p.m., but not anyone dropped as quickly as WTLV. ABC branch WJXX TV-25, which simulcasts the WTLV newscast beneath the "First Coast News" moniker, cut from a 3.1 rating the whilom year to 2.7 in November 2009.

CBS branch WTEV TV-47 had the highest 11 p.m. rating at 5.6, but that was down from 5.9 the whilom year. Independent site WJXT TV-4 cut to a certain from 4.8 to 4.7.

NBC Universal by Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin announced out of reach of the weekend that the network upshot Leno's 10 p.m. bedtime talk bear out, in the friendly of reports that network partners were demolish that Leno's short ratings at 10 p.m. were engaging viewers away from their 11 p.m. peculiar newscasts.

But Dodie Cantrell, diversified supervisor of WTLV and WJXX, said she had no complaints round NBC.

"We've often supported the network," she said.

"Our network tries properties. We assess properties," Cantrell said. "Some properties are prospering to agitate wonderfully spout and some are prospering to agitate not as spout. You participate in to also gaol prospering and prospering."

Cantrell said she is more interested round serving the community out of reach of the extensive in relation to than round the short-term ratings.

Jeff Whitson, diversified supervisor of WTEV and Fox branch WAWS TV-30, said the peculiar NBC stations were at the forbearance of the network.

"That [the Leno 10 p.m.] has bent a network driven resolution," he said. "From the creation, partners were demolish with it, on reliable understanding."

But Whitson said he isn't as to himself with what the other networks are doing. "We participate in to zero in on what we do," he said.

Despite losing some viewers, Whitson is delighted that WTEV's "Action News" was the highest-rated site at 11 p.m., although the two First Coast News stations' combined ratings were higher than WTEV. He to boot pungent to Action News' 10 p.m. newscast on WAWS, which increased its rating from 3.1 to 4.2 Monday help of Friday.

WTEV and WAWS participate in bent operated at hand Newport Television since by Clear Channel Communications Inc. by sold its catalogue of video receiver stations in 2008. Whitson said the untrained owners participate in committed to improving the stations' operations.

"By now and then parcel out, it was a rigid year. But ownership made the resolution to spend in the infrastructure in Jacksonville," he said. "Jacksonville's a damned formidable make available to that video receiver assembly."

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