Take this with a grain of salt, but earlier on the "Today" show it came out in the discussion of the Letterman/Colbert transition that Colbert had timed the expiration of his CC contract to coincide with the end of Dave's CBS agreement. Not sure how much truth there is there, but if true, then Colbert has been thinking about this for a while.
On Friday, April 11, 2014 12:15:12 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:24 AM, PGage <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Jon Delfin <[email protected]<javascript:> >> > wrote: >> >>> http://www.newsfromme.com/2014/04/10/colbert/ >>> >> >> Again, I am not sure how good the kind of sense displayed here really is. >> If Les had not been thinking hard about who would replace Dave when his >> contract was up next year he would have been an idiot. If Dave had resigned >> for 2 or 3 more years after his current contract expired it would have been >> very unusual. We have seen zero evidence that CBS in any way pressured or >> even wanted Dave to not extend. >> > > My suspicion of how this all went down: Dave had already said that this > contract would be his last and the phone call was just to confirm that he > hadn't changed his mind on it. Colbert and Moonves had already agreed that > he was going to take over, and the week's delay on the announcement was > because the timing caught them off guard and they still had to get the i's > dotted and t's crossed. > > -- > David J. Lynch > [email protected] <javascript:> > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
