Did Internet kill Letterman show?

The Internet killed David Letterman.

David Bianculli

That’s the premise of former BJ TV writer David Bianculli’s article on CNN Opinion.

Fewer and fewer people stay up to watch an entire hour of late-night shows. Younger viewers just wait for 4-minute morning snippets of the best stuff on YouTube or other web sites. They go viral with millions of hits.

So much so that Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show” draws nearly double the audience of “The David Letterman Show.”

By the time Letterman retires in 2015, he will have more years on TV than Johnny Carson, who had 30, or Jay Leno, who had 20.

Bianculli, who left the BJ for the New York Post, today teaches TV and film at Rowan University in New Jersey and is TV critic and guest host on National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air With Terry Gross.” 

Mark Dawidziak replaced Bianculli at the BJ. Rich Heldenfels, still at the BJ, came aboard when Dawidziak went to the PD.

To read Bianculli’s article, click on http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/04/opinion/bianculli-david-letterman/index.html?hpt=hp_t4