Better 'late' HD than never.(Flash!)(Late Show with David Letterman)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, March, 2005

Letterman, Letterman everywhere. He kept popping up on the Flash! radar last week, from CBS uber-boss Les Moonves' contention in a Playboy magazine interview that his man would beat Jay Leno in the late-night ratings if Nielsen could just tally guys watching in sports bars and frat houses, to Dave's conducting the Dan Rather exit interview as the newsman gives up the CBS Evening News anchor chair. Then there was the tech gossip that came our way: Next fall, Letterman's Late Show will, at a long last, start broadcasting in high-definition (Leno went HD in 1999). Nice to know that the Late Show look will finally sparkle as much as the writing still does after all these years.

In case you missed it, the other night Letterman offered a Top 10 list of "Other...

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