{"id":1429,"date":"2004-03-19T10:10:05","date_gmt":"2004-03-19T15:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1429.html"},"modified":"2004-03-19T10:10:05","modified_gmt":"2004-03-19T15:10:05","slug":"good-news-about-the-most-important-television-program-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/good-news-about-the-most-important-television-program-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news about the most important television program &#8212; ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putting a rest to rumors that one of the bigger networks will lure Jon Stewart away, Comedy Central announced yesterday that it had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/03\/18\/tv.jonstewart.ap\/index.html\">renewed the contract<\/a> for Stewart and &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; through 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A lot of people like to get out when their show&#8217;s still going well,&#8221; Stewart said. &#8220;This gives me the opportunity to beat this thing into the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Besides hosting &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; Stewart serves as an executive producer and writer. His contract had been set to expire at the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, viewership has averaged 1 million for the weeknight 11 p.m. EST airing &#8212; an all-time high for the show.<\/p>\n<p>The program has won several Emmys as well as a Peabody Award for its yearlong &#8220;Indecision 2000&#8221; political coverage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting a rest to rumors that one of the bigger networks will lure Jon Stewart away, Comedy Central announced yesterday that it had renewed the contract for Stewart and &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; through 2008. &#8220;A lot of people like to get out when their show&#8217;s still going well,&#8221; Stewart said. &#8220;This gives me the opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}