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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 8:55am on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 | Brian Williams Can Be Funny, the Los Angeles Times reported on November 21, 2009:
"In airline pilot terms, I feel like I have enough stripes on my sleeve to be able to do more of it," Williams said. "People are much savvier now. They get the difference. They know when you change hats."
So last month, days before heading on an intense reporting trip to Afghanistan, Williams appeared on the NPR news quiz show “Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me,” cracking up the audience with a Bill Clinton impersonation. Host Peter Sagal dubbed him "the funniest man to jockey an anchor desk."
The full story:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-brian-williams21-2009nov21,0,6105382.story
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 2:06pm on Monday, November 16th, 2009 | Daily Connection Recycles News Stories Into "Repurposed" Local Content, the New York Observer reported on November 13, 2009:
"Every day, producers in New York comb through the myriad stories that have aired or are about to air across the range of NBC Universal TV and Web properties--including NBC News, the Weather Channel, Bravo, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC sports, NBC mobile, etc.--and pick out a handful of breezy stories to repeat on Daily Connection.
Producers in New York then compose and edit the news elements and send the package to a control room in Washington D.C. From there, the local station takes over.
Every day, WRC-4 assigns two members of its newsroom, from a rotating cast of anchors and reporters, to host Daily Connection.
Typically, the hour of programming begins with a brief bit of live (or live-to-tape) news about the day's big story--Congress debating a health-care bill; a shooting at Fort Hood etc.--and then segues into a playful hour of effervescent news stories largely tailored to female viewers.
Here and there, WRC-4 producers sprinkle in fresh content, such as a recent, original interview with NBC artist-in-residence Jon Bon Jovi. But for the most part, the majority of the news comes from repurposed material that has already appeared elsewhere in the NBC Universal universe."
The full story:
http://www.observer.com/2009/media/nbcs-adventuresome-foray-re-purposed-multi-platform-synergistic-local-news
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 8:01am on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | Monday Night Football Throws Leno Ratings for Worst Loss Yet, the New York Times reported on November 10, 2009:
"Monday night, a night fans of “The Tonight Show” used to look forward to because of Mr. Leno’s popular “Headlines” segment, has become the toughest competitive night of the week (matched by Friday) for the comedian and his new prime-time show. One big reason is the overwhelming appeal of Monday Night Football on ESPN.
Ratings so far this fall have indicated that Mr. Leno is stronger among male viewers than female viewers and so sports have strongly affected his numbers."
The full story:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/a-new-low-for-leno/
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 2:52pm on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | Littlefield Memoir a 'Must-Read'?
Variety reported on November 6, 2009:
Former NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield has inked a deal with Doubleday for a memoir recounting his time at the network and the programs and personalities that went into the "Must-See TV" years.
His 20 years at NBC included supervising such programs as "Seinfeld," "Frasier," "Mad About You" and "ER."
The book comes as NBC is currently struggling in primetime and with the network potentially about to change hands if owner General Electric finalizes an agreement with Comcast.
The full story:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010914.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:22pm on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | The Jay Leno Show, which premiered on September 14, gets kicked to the curb by television critic Nancy Franklin, writing in the October 5, 2009 issue of The New Yorker:
"The forensic evidence so far indicates that a kind of death is taking place before our eyes; the only question is whether what we’re witnessing is an accident or a crime scene. Despite the fact that Leno is a showbiz veteran, and that he and his team have had nine months or so to prepare (granted, for five of those months he was still busy working at his old job), the new show is full of bugs, and Leno seems louder, antsier, and more ill at ease than you want in a five-nights-a-week companion. Leno’s job, as he has defined it, calls on him to be a showman, a presenter as much as a performer. The program has the format of a variety show, a creature that was virtually extinct decades ago, even before cable and the Internet. And there’s a halting, clanking quality to it so far; if the show had an intermission, you might exchange a look with your date that said, “Should we leave? Do you want to leave? Let’s leave.”"
The full story:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2009/10/05/091005crte_television_franklin
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:32pm on Thursday, September 10th, 2009 | Jay Leno is the future of TV, because he works relatively cheap, argued James Poniewozik in Time magazine on September 3, 2009:
"If The Jay Leno Show succeeds — where succeeding means not getting more viewers than the competition but simply increasing NBC's profit margin — it suggests a TV future in which ambitious dramas become the stuff of boutique cable, while the broadcasters become a megaphone for live events and cheap nonfiction. "If the Leno Show works," says former NBC president Fred Silverman, "it will be the most significant thing to happen in broadcast television in the last decade."
It's a business model that says, essentially, the mainstream has shrunk, if it exists at all. Yet the guy NBC has enlisted to usher it into this specialized world is TV's most middle-of-the-road entertainer: a "big-tent guy," he calls himself, who lives and breathes the old-fashioned something-for-everybody philosophy of broadcasting, whose icons include Jack Benny and Ed Sullivan. NBC is trying to adapt to a media future in which audiences choose from a thousand flavors by signing up with America's most successful purveyor of vanilla."
The full story:
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1920038,00.html
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 5:52pm on Saturday, July 25th, 2009 | The 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations have been announced. The Emmy Awards will be held on September 20, 2009.
NBC TV's 30 Rock lead the pack with 22 nominations. These include Alec Baldwin for best comedy lead actor and Tina Fey for best comedy lead actress.
30 Rock, the two-time defending champion, will compete against Entourage, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, Weeds, Flight of the Conchords and Family Guy.
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 1:18pm on Saturday, June 6th, 2009 | On June 2, 2009, NBC announced that the The Jay Leno Show will premiere on September 14, 2009. The show will air Monday to Friday from 10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. ET.
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:55pm on Saturday, May 30th, 2009 | Jay Leno's last appearance on The Tonight Show was on May 29, 2009. Conan O'Brien takes over on June 1.
Burbank, CA - For seventeen years, Jay Leno hosted The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, but on May 29, Leno will move on to other things, including The Jay Leno Show on NBC. Taking over for Leno on June 1 will be veteran talk show host, Conan O'Brien who will be moving to Stage 1 on the Universal Studios lot, just outside of Burbank.
The format of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien will remain similar, with celebrity and musical guests, monologue, and skits, but O'Brien will add his own unique spin on things, which is what he did as host of Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Schedule of Guests for the First Week
Monday, June 1 - The first episode of "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" with guests Will Ferrell and musical guest Pearl Jam
Tuesday, June 2: Tom Hanks and musical guest Green Day
Wednesday, June 3: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bradley Cooper and musical guest Sheryl Crow
Thursday, June 4: Gwyneth Paltrow and musical guest John Mayer Trio
Friday, June 5: Ryan Seacrest and musical guest Chickenfoot
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:38pm on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 | NBC went to Oprah Winfrey before Jay Leno for a prime time show, TV Week reported on May 19, 2009:
"Before deciding to put Jay Leno in prime time, NBC offered its 8 p.m. timeslot to Oprah Winfrey.
NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker said that the notion of Oprah having a nightly show in prime time wasn’t a new idea.
NBC talked to Ms. Winfrey about two years ago, Mr. Zucker said. She passed but said she might have considered it earlier in her career, he said. NBC also discussed an 8 p.m. show with David Letterman when the “Late Show” host’s contract was coming up at CBS."
The full story:
http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/05/nbc_went_to_oprah_before_leno.php
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