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Dale Roe writes about television for the Austin American-Statesman.

He's worked at the American-Statesman for 10 years and has written family movie and video game reviews as well as watched lots of TV. Dale directs, writes and performs with Austin's Gag Reflex comedy ensemble, is a freelance illustrator and has contributed stories and reviews to Macworld magazine. He lives in Round Rock with his wife, two children and a dog named Apollo who barks whenever he hears another dog bark on television.

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Austin360 blogs > TV Blog > Archives > 2009 > October > 02 > Entry

Sex and extortion scandal boosts Letterman’s ratings

By Dale Roe | Friday, October 2, 2009, 05:01 PM

The Los Angeles Times reports that ratings for Thursday’s “The Late Show” surged 22 percent from the season average.

Host David Letterman disclosed on that program that he had been the target of a blackmail scheme involving sexual relationships that had occurred between him and women who worked on his NBC show.

The article notes that while “The Late Show” is on a ratings upswing, Letterman scored bigger numbers when President Obama was recently his sole guest and his all-time ratings high came on Dec. 1, 2005 when Oprah Winfrey appeared.

Those looking for Letterman’s reaction to the reaction will have to wait … tonight’s “Late Show” was also taped on Thursday.

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