Thread: Leno Moving Back to 11:30
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Old 01-23-2010, 07:01 PM   #243
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Originally Posted by Zeeboe View Post
I know he's been around for a while, but as far as The Tonight Show goes, the plan he had in mind did fail. That is what I meant.
What plan? If anyone's plan failed it's NBC's. They only gave him 7 months of hosting and he was contracted to host for 5 years or something. If Leno retired or went somewhere else then they would have come up with something better for the lead-in and wouldn't have been forced to do anything this drastic or lose any money.

But they didn't do that.

They didn't want anyone else to have Leno so gave him a show at an earlier time. Well, okay we thought he was retiring but maybe this will be decent. It should save them some money if it gets decent ratings. It airs and it's basically The Tonight Show at an earlier time. WTF is that? Guess what? It's a disaster. They actually are losing money and news affiliates are putting pressure on NBC to do something about it. Then guess what NBC has to do now? Do what they should have done in the first place and put a good show at 10 but they have to keep Leno from going anywhere also so hey lets push Conan back and put Jay at 11:30. Conan doesn't like it and stands up for himself. Uh oh. So it seems Conan is going to leave so they end up giving Jay his job back.

Letterman appeals to the older crowd mostly and Conan appeals to the younger demographic while Leno appeals to middle-aged plus some of the younger and older crowd. But hen you look at it, it's not really about who's funnier or more entertaining, which is Conan by far but it's a combination of a lot of things. Most of the people who love Jay probably didn't give Conan a chance at all or they even went to Letterman.

Do you think that if NBC picked Letterman instead and Leno went to CBS that Jay would still have beaten him consistently in the ratings?
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