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Originally Posted by pylon
what a hypocrite.
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Haha, how is he a hypocrite?
He handed off the #1 rated Late Night show to Conan like he promised in 2009. NBC threw a boat load of money at Leno to stay with NBC so he wouldn't go to Fox, ABC, or CNN. Since they knew his viewership would more than likely follow him to a different network in the same timeslot.
Seven months passes and both shows are not doing near as well as expected, and NBC is losing viewers to its rivals. Sure they could wait it out, but why risk it when you still have the biggest draw in their lineup.
So the only cure NBC has it to put Leno back in his own time slot to save hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. What jerks, wanting to make a show profitable, and keep viewers watching. Moving Conan onto the Tonight Show was an unmitigated diasaster. It's not like NBC had any other choice, as I am sure they knew how bad this would look.
I get that Conan is some sort of cult figure to the younger generation, but he was never going to cut it on the Tonight Show. I am sure he will surface in September again in some capacity however.