On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote:
> They were so quick with Conan. I guess you could argue that they learned > their lesson, or that there's no proven ratings winner like Leno waiting in > the wings. But Johnny never lost to Cavett or Sajak. Leno bounced back > against Letterman. This is a historical profit center struggling. > There is no way to know for sure but if NBC did not have Leno, his whole staff, and a studio ready to go, they would have kept Conan on, possibly cutting his budget to the bone to mitigate revenue losses. Conan was an anomaly, not a repeatable example. Johnny never lost to Cavett or Sajak. If he had for any length of time NBC would not have let him host new shows only three nights a week. The only host to cut into his audience was Arsenio, who appealed to a different audience and got a large share of the younger demo. With Johnny's antipathy to rock music, not to mention completely ignoring hip hop and urban comedy, NBC and Johnny had to know there was no way of getting them back. -- -- 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.
