On Jan 10, 2:50 pm, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now for the post 11:35 PM fallout. Will Conan be a good soldier and do
> "The Tonight Show" tomorrow morning? Will Jimmy Fallon be grateful
> that he's getting beaten in the ratings by the Shamwow ad instead of C-
> Ferg in the last half-hour of "Late Night"? And will Carson Daly enjoy
> doing a program on public-access?

I think the last sentence in the following article speaks volumes as
to CO's and JF's stances:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100110/ap_en_tv/us_nbc_leno

NBC ending Leno's nightly prime-time show

PASADENA, Calif – NBC decided to end the Jay Leno experiment when
some
of its affiliates started talking about dropping the nightly prime-
time
show, its top entertainment executive said Sunday.

NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin said
Sunday
that Leno's nightly prime-time show will end with the beginning of
the
Winter Olympics on Feb. 12. NBC wants Leno to do an 11:35 p.m. show
each
night, a return to his old time slot, Gaspin said.

Gaspin said despite lower ratings for NBC at 10 p.m. compared with
last
year, the network was making money off the show.

But affiliates were upset that the show was leading fewer viewers
into
their late news programs, costing them significant advertising
revenue.
Some affiliates told NBC in December they would go public soon about
their complaints if a change wasn't made, or even take Leno's show
off
the air.

"The drumbeat started getting louder," Gaspin said.

Gaspin has proposed moving Conan O'Brien's "Tonight" show to 12:05
a.m.,
and Jimmy Fallon's show would start an hour later. But the late-night
hosts had not agreed to the move. Gaspin said he expected NBC's
late-night situation to be cleared up by the start of the Olympics.

Asked if O'Brien and Fallon expressed anger at his proposal, Gaspin
said
both men were professional and understanding when they talked.

"Beyond that, it was a private conversation," Gaspin said.

>
> On Jan 10, 11:35 am, Jay Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 1/10/2010 3:29 PM, PGage wrote:
>
> > > They are thinking of a L&O set in Los Angeles (they call it "LOLA").
>
> > Theme by The Kinks?
> > --
> > QWIZX.com - A little bit of everything
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