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- From: rnovak@nyx.cs.du.edu (Robert Novak)
- Subject: Re: NYT reports NBC likely to keep Letterman
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 16:11:14 GMT
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- thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell) writes:
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- >>I am proposing to keep Letterman where he is and Leno where he is. Change the
- >>times of the Tonight show and Late night show (News at 10pm, Tonight at 10:30,
- >>and Late night at 11:30). This is a radical change and I don't know if it will
- >>be well received.
- >>--
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- >OH.. that has *no* hope of working.. assuming you're talking East Coast times
- >here. The whole point of "Late Night" television is that it's on late at night.
- >You'd never be able to invade the Prime Time spectrum with talk shows they
- >arn't *that* interesting compared to the Prime Time Fare....
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- He's talking central standard time, or eastern daylight time, in all
- likelihood. East Coast news is at 11pm in most cases (some independent
- stations go an hour earlier). I think...
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- Idea: Dave at 12:30 EST or whatever he is now, PLUS Half an hour up
- against the Simpsons every week. Who would win?
-
- Robert
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