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...made clear what the hell it was thinking in creating The Jay Leno Show. It was trying to adjust to the post-Big Media world. With cable, DVR and online media snagging viewers, programming a full night of expensive TV was a bygone luxury. Leno might get lower ratings than NBC's 10 p.m. dramas, but those were struggling anyway and cost much more. (See the top 10 Jay Leno moments...
...thing right: the ratings were lower. To be fair to NBC, so were the costs. Even getting no more viewers than Leno did in late night, the network was reportedly ahead in ad revenue. But that was no comfort to NBC's affiliates, the local stations that make up the network by agreeing to air NBC shows. Their nightly newscasts suffering, they found The Jay Leno Show even less amusing than TV critics did and threatened to revolt...
Coffey estimates that payday loans account for 35% of Cash America's revenue, 22% of EZCorp's total revenue and only 10% to 12% of First Cash's revenue. First Cash recently sold all 22 of its payday outlets in California, Washington and Oregon to lower its exposure to payday-loan regulatory issues - a move Elving says should boost the company's valuation...
...dioxide gets most of the attention when it comes to greenhouse gases, but it's not the only one that's warming the earth. Methane - a gas that is found in everything from landfills to cow stomachs - also plays a big role. Although global methane-emissions levels are much lower than CO2 emissions, pound for pound methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas; a ton of it has 23 times the warming effect of a ton of CO2. And methane, like CO2, is on the rise thanks to us: about 60% of global methane emissions come from man-made sources...
...moniker has been sorely tested during this month's Arctic blast, not so much because of the plummeting nighttime temps but because of how long they're lasting this year - almost two continuous weeks so far. And that has Florida farmers as well as American consumers fretful about lower harvests and higher prices for everything from orange juice to strawberries in the coming year...