Did Jay Leno Mastermind the WHOLE THING?
Some people say NBC is to blame for what is happening to Conan and the Tonight Show… I agreed at first.
Now, after watching this video footage, in my opinion, Leno IS to blame for this. In fact I think he may have done it on purpose.
OK, we all saw this….Stern warning Conan that Leno would do EVERYTHING in his power to not give the show up to Conan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxcAAb60lik
Now, as Stern says here, this week. LEAD INs are everything in television. Leno’s Tonight show had GREAT Lead ins, SUV, Law & Order… listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-9gawf1JCk
Leno CHOSE 10pm through manipulation. Zucker said 8, Leno said to early, Zucker said 9, Leno said too early Zucker said an hour at 10, Leno said SURE!…Leno did this KNOWING it would hurt Conan’s ratings.
Leno ADMITS here NBC wanted to give him 8′O’CLOCK and they tried a couple other things:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMYCk1OzDbQ
This is last night. Leno talks again here but fails to mention that they asked him to do the show at 8. He says they begged him to do the 10′o’clock show…BEFORE Conan. I HIGHLY doubt this. He knew as well as anyone that doing that would be damaging for Conan’s ratings. He said no to every time they offered until they put him on as a lead in to Conan’s show. He calls it an experiment. He KNEW it wouldn’t work! So why do it? You got it…
http://www.thejaylenoshow.com/video/clips/jay-pov/1194348
Sure, Zucker messed up and is an idiot but Leno did this purposefully.
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