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The Fox network, which launched in 1986 with the late-night “Joan Rivers Show” and held on to the right to program the 11 p.m. hour for almost two decades, apparently surrendered that right to its affiliates sometime within the last five years – and that’s what sank Fox’s quest to bring Conan O’Brien to the network.
That’s the story Michael Schneider is reporting in Variety:
Some Fox execs, unaware that they no longer had the ability to take back 11 p.m., were optimistic that an O'Brien deal might happen -- until they realized an O'Brien show would have to be cleared market-by-market.
Quite the blunder on Fox’s part I say, especially with all the talk now of how O’Brien’s new TBS show is expected to bolster Time Warner’s bottom line.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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Hooray for me!
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Fox loses Conan to local station rights. The same company that hates the federal government well as long as its a Democrat in charge.
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Pack it in motherfucks! It's all cable & internet streaming in the future.
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And Arsinio. Whoop, whoop, whoop.
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...in this case. I know the cable audience is smaller than the broadcast network audience in absolute terms, but does that really matter for Conan's show on TBS? As this little article illustrates, there's an age issue at play here in the late-night viewership demographics. Isn't it safe to assume the vast, vast, vast majority of Conan's audience (young/'intellectual') already have cable and were already choosing to watch him over Stewart, Colbert, Adult Swim, etc?
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Are IMMEDIATELY what I thought of when the headline said TEAM LENO. No one under the age of 110 gives a damn about Leno....fuck NBC
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I suggest a federal bailout
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theres an interesting article on yahoo talking about people cutting the cord from tv and cable and moving just to internet and hulu for there tv.it wasnt a huge amount like 800,000 some 1% of tv viewers but that number is getting bigger and bigger
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The old TV watching paradigm is dead, and has been for awhile. Today's audiences aren't impressed by the network's imaginary clout. The ever-dwindling network viewership numbers prove that.
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Both in total viewship and 18 to 49 demographic: http://tinyurl.com/y3dnfj5 I, personally, think they both suck.
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get an HD antenna and use online services and you can get any show and local news. All you miss is sports, which I cannot part with.
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Team Queef
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Answer damn it.
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April 14, 2010, 5:32 p.m. CST
Don't give shit where Conan airs in the states, need it in Canad
by Tall_Boy66
He could be on fucking PBS for all I care, as long as it's simulcast up in Canada I'm happy. But we don't get TBS. We get Peachtree TV. Fox would have aired up here because we actually get Fox. Thanks, affiliates. But, still, I'm sure a Canadian broadcaster will pick the show up sometime.
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The internets will save us. <p> or at some point between now and the fall "peachtree tv" (what a stupid fucking name), will decide to scrap the third airing of Breakin' 2: electric boogaloo, or whatever shit movie they're playing that day and put on late night programming.
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true story. Gary Coleman (from "Late night with Gary Coleman" on PBS) approached him to ask him to be part of a great comedy line-up.
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Huge improvement over the latin guy....whatshisname there.
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...Now that LOST is concluding and Conan is gone. And Letterman is on his way out soon.
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I think hulu is owned by the mega media company that owns NBC.
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That's how I watched Men of a Certain Age. Video quality is crap though.
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Legally, broadcast TV, during the First Amendment "safe harbor" hours of 10 p.m. to 6 p.m., can do anything cable can do: profanity, nudity, anything that's not obscene (no porn). It doesn't happen for commercial reasons. A lot of advertisers would be skittish, and more importantly a lot of smaller-town affiliates wouldn't stand for it. As a result, late night on broadcast is only very slightly more risque than prime time.
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If Leno is still beating Letterman in 18-49 AND overall audience, how pointless and irrelevant does that make Letterman?
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Letterman is like the current Simpsons or Sting post-Police: once an innovator, now a past its prime shell of its former glory.
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Letterman is a successful alternative for people who enjoy the ritual of the couch-desk-band late-night show, but can't stand Leno. And vice versa. Letterman at least retains the potential to be brilliant and his fans are willing to sit through a lot of forgettable shows to be there when he gets inspired. Watching Leno, there is no such hope: he's very consistent, so if you do or don't like what you see one night, it's probably not going to change.
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I thought Desert Rose was okay.
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If he sticks around like enough, people will just accept him... I don't know who these unfunny people are who like this fucking prick, but they are plentiful unfortunately.
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Really... local news? You could care? Need to stay up-to-date on all the house fires and Doppler 3000 radars?
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April 14, 2010, 9:24 p.m. CST
Letterman hasn't been funny since they used to make fun of
by torontoxic
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April 14, 2010, 9:24 p.m. CST
that indian guy who worked near the station. Colbert should take
by torontoxic
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when he had sarah palin do stand-up
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Is essentially as predictable and "safe" as the guy he's bashing. Leno caters to old people! Ohhhh BURN! And if I'm not mistaken Leno actually carries the 18-49 demo so the joke doesn't really work.
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You're not funny. Go away.
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That is some cutting edge comedy alright.
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But with numbers.
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less news coverage
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thats just how i roll, boyz.
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