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Conan’s first night whips rivals in viewership

The Columbian
Published: November 9, 2010, 12:00am

NEW YORK (AP) — TBS says Conan O’Brien was welcomed back to television by more than 4.1 million viewers.

The former host of “The Tonight Show,” who left NBC eight months ago, returned to late night Monday with a new talk show, “Conan,” which premiered on basic-cable network TBS.

In the 11 p.m. Eastern hour, O’Brien’s opening night throttled his direct rivals on Comedy Central. “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” was seen by 1.3 million viewers, followed by “The Colbert (kohl-BEHR’) Report (ruh-POR’)” with 1 million.

Conan even beat Jay Leno, the host who reclaimed the “Tonight Show” chair from him. Starting at 11:35 p.m. Eastern, “Tonight” attracted 3.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen Co. figures released on Tuesday.

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TBS is owned by Time Warner.

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