It's a huge thing and that's a big part of this story, Brian, I think is that Chris Cuomo as a performer, as a talent in the 9:00 p.m. time slot, did a terrific job. I mean,he did a terrific job. He had almost a million viewers a night.He was competitive in the toughest primetime time slot there is.

David Zurawik

David Lee Zurawik (born October 26, 1949) is an American journalist, author, and professor. He has been the TV and media critic at The Baltimore Sun since 1989 and is an assistant professor of communications and media studies at Goucher College. Before that, Zurawik was a TV critic/columnist at the Dallas Times Herald. Zurawik is the author of The Jews of Prime Time.

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