In the second week after Letterman and O ' Brien began their opposing broadcasts, viewer ratings for Tonight began to slip and Late Show was poised to beat Tonight for the first time in over ten years, a fact pointed out by Letterman's guests on air ( Howard Stern and Julia Roberts ).

Ratings slowly climbed to the point where World News Tonight eventually beat both NBC Nightly News and the CBS Evening News, marking the first time ever that ABC had the most-popular network evening newscast.

In 2009, on The Tonight Show with Conan O ' Brien, the talkshow host twice asked actor William Shatner to deliver the written words of former Alaskan Governor and Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin in the style of beat poetry.

In October 2010, David Letterman beat Leno's program in the ratings, for the first time since Leno returned to hosting The Tonight Show.

For at least six weeks following his return to The Tonight Show, Leno's program beat Letterman in the overall ratings each night, though with a reduced lead in comparison to his first tenure.

In October 2010, David Letterman beat Leno's program in the ratings, for the first time since Leno returned to hosting The Tonight Show.

Wynonie Harris ' 1947 cover of Roy Brown's " Good Rocking Tonight " is also a claimant for the title of first rock and roll record, as the popularity of this record led to many answer songs, mostly by black artists, with the same rocking beat, during the late 40s and early 50s.

Presented by Australian lawyer, comedian and writer Steve Vizard, the show's format was an eclectic mix of a traditional Tonight Show, such as the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson or Jay Leno, In Melbourne Tonight with Graham Kennedy with more off beat, often deconstructionist elements, such as broadcasting a rehearsal of the show, a rained out show, a parallel Tonight show, using the floor manager and cameramen as on air talent, using the studio audience to replace high profile guests and the like.

In the 1961 cartoon The Yogi Bear Show, Yogi helps the Bears beat the New York Giants.

Show beat down Bradshaw and The Cabinet interfered and beat Show down, Dave Batista interfered and beat down The Cabinet, and John Cena interfered and beat down Bradshaw.

On the July 4 episode of ECW on Sci Fi, Big Show beat Van Dam to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship on an ECW show in Philadelphia with the assistance of ECW's General Manager Paul Heyman, who declined to make the three-count for Van Dam after Van Dam hit his finisher Five Star Frog Splash on the Big Show.

Due to his new persona gimmick ( which made him heel ), the Undertaker went against numerous opponents ( usually smaller than him ) and severely cripples them after the match, with the exception of the Big Show who Undertaker beat but left after the match.

Sabu beat Rob Van Dam in their ladder match to win a shot at Big Show at SummerSlam, a match which he ended up losing.

Alan Trammell drilled a pair of two-run homers in the first and third innings to account for all of Detroit's offense as the Tigers beat Eric Show to take a three games-to-one lead in the Series.

* On Cartoon Network, WB !, ABC, and the syndicated version of " The Merrie Melodies Show ", the entire scene where Bugs impersonates a black slave to get past the Mason-Dixon line, blows his cover by playing " Yankee Doodle ", places a whip in Yosemite Sam's hand and begs Sam not to beat him, then comes in as Abraham Lincoln reprimanding Sam for what he supposedly done (" What's this I hear about you whipping slaves?

While ABC, Cartoon Network, and WB showings deleted the entire part after Sam shoots at Bugs ( fading out after that point and falsely fading in to the part where Bugs runs to hide in a tree ), the syndicated " Merrie Melodies Show " showed Bugs crossing the Mason-Dixon line as a slave and singing " Yankee Doodle " before Sam catches him, but cut the part where Bugs places a whip in Sam's hand, begs Sam not to beat him, then comes in as Abraham Lincoln to reprimand him.

They continued to attack Angle after the match until The Big Show came out, beat down everyone, and signaled to JBL that he wanted the title.

After realizing this, JBL aligned himself with The Big Show and confronted Angle ; however, JBL turned on Big Show and beat him down with Angle.

The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.

Late in 1995, Ajax beat Brazilian side Grêmio on penalties to win the Toyota Cup ( formerly Intercontinental Cup ).

Late in the season, though, Risberg went into a terrible slump, and he therefore only pinch hit twice when the Sox beat the New York Giants in the 1917 World Series.

Late in the novel, Archie disapproves of Carter's readiness to beat up an insolent junior, Frankie Rollo.

The programme's name had been intended to be ' The Late Show ', but rival station HSV-7 beat them to that title by one week.

Hemish Shah ( 7 April 1968-5 September 2001 ) was an English stockbroker before he became a professional poker player, and the winner of Late Night Poker series 4, where he beat the season 2 champion Simon " Aces " Trumper in the final heads-up confrontation.

The record was pushed steadily upwards before reaching its peak on 31 March 2007, when 76, 098 spectators saw Manchester United beat Blackburn Rovers 4 – 1, with just 114 seats ( 0. 15 percent of the total capacity of 76, 212 ) unoccupied.

As of the 2012 Formula One season Schumacher is the only driver left competing in Formula 1 to have raced against Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, whose record of total career wins he beat with his 52nd win at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix.

While an urban legend, a 1999 television documentary, part of the Modern Marvels ' Engineering Disasters sub-series, argued that — even if there was no specific plan to make alcohol to beat Prohibition — there may have been some general idea of increasing the volume at the last minute so as to prepare in case total alcohol prohibition might occur.

Winston beat the data transfer over Telkom's ADSL line, with a total time of two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds from uploading data on the microSD card to completion of download from card.

The channel also beat CNN in total adult viewers in March, marking the seventh out of the past eight months MSNBC achieved that result.

The network also beat CNN for the fourth consecutive quarter, among both primetime and total viewers, as well as becoming the only cable news network to have its key adult demographic viewership grow over the last quarter, increasing by 4 %.

In late September 2007, Dunwoody beat Irene Ward's record of the longest total service for a woman MP, at 37 years, 9 months.

This modality uses ultrasound to determine the stroke volume ( SV, the amount of blood in the heart that exits the ventricles with each beat ), the end-diastolic volume ( EDV, the total amount of blood at the end of diastole ), and the SV in proportion to the EDV, a value known as the ejection fraction ( EF ).

But it didn't happen ... Ottawa beat Toronto 36-14, winning 47-27 in combined total points.

If a team beat a team which was in the top 15 in the BCS standings, a range of 1. 5 to. 1 points was subtracted from their total.

This however does not apply to the 5th set of matches at the Australian Open, French Open, and Wimbledon Championships ; allowing the total number of games in a match to be virtually unlimited ( for example, the Isner – Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships ended only when John Isner beat Nicolas Mahut 70 – 68 ).

The challenger's total time now serves as the time for the champion to beat.

* NHL – March 23, 1936: The Detroit Red Wings beat the Montreal Maroons 1 – 0 in the 6th overtime and after a total of 116: 30 minutes had been played in overtime.

The record continued to be pushed upwards before reaching its current peak on 31 March 2007, when 76, 098 spectators saw United beat Blackburn Rovers 4 – 1, meaning that just 114 seats ( 0. 15 % of the total capacity of 76, 212 ) were left unoccupied.

In October 1999, Prada joined with LVMH and beat Gucci to buy a 51 % stake in the Rome-based Fendi S. p. A. Prada's share of the purchase ( 25. 5 %) was worth US $ 241. 5 million out of the reported US $ 520 million total paid by both Prada and LVMH.

GameSpot praised the copy ability and the gameplay, but criticized the length of the game, saying " Can beat the game in a single evening ", with a total score of 7. 3 out of 10.

beat Chestnut by two pounds and almost doubled her total from the previous year's meatball contest.

In the third round was against Portuguese 2010 – 11 UEFA Europa League finalists SC Braga, as they surprisingly managed to beat them after a completely heroic win by a total of 4-1.

Between 1967 and 1968, WMCA still had a good run in the total survey area and always beat WABC in the city itself.

In the 2004 regional council election,! Gobs beat out Theophelus // Khamuseb for the regional councillor position with a vote total of 2623 against just 1643 for SWAPO's // Khamuseb.

Preki played a total of 28 games for the US, scoring four goals, one of them to beat Brazil at the 1998 Gold Cup.

With his victory at this race, Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari won his second Driver's championship in a row ; as teammates Nino Farina and Mike Hawthorn, and Maserati driver Juan Manuel Fangio ( who failed to score ) now could not beat Ascari's total points score.

That meant that Ickx could not reach Rindt's total of 45 points and, as he was the only one who could beat Rindt, the Austrian driver would be the first posthumous Formula One World Champion.

Victory in Japan was also Senna's eighth win of the season, which beat the record for total wins in a single season, previously held by Jim Clark and Prost.