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NO JOKE: Jeff Zucker Had Conan Arrested (1985)


1 posted on 01/15/2010 11:08:31 AM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark

I sure do miss Johnny Carson.


2 posted on 01/15/2010 11:19:22 AM PST by JPG (Mr. Gore, we have a warrant for your arrest...put your hands behind your back.)
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http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9555450
“”...a study emerged Wednesday illustrating just how damaging Leno’s prime-time show was to NBC’s local stations.

The research firm Harmelin Media said local NBC stations saw their late news audience drop by an average of 25 percent in November compared with the previous year among 25- to 54-year-old viewers. That’s the demographic upon which news advertising rates are based.

The decline was particularly steep in some of the largest markets: 48 percent in New York, 43 percent in Los Angeles and 47 percent in Philadelphia...

“We all knew it was going to go down,” Shimkus said. “But I don’t think anyone forecast anything in the neighborhood of 40 to 50 percent.”

Harmelin used data on the number of ads run in late local news programs and their cost to calculate that over a three-month period, the Leno experiment would cost these stations collectively $22 million. The 10 stations that NBC owns and operates would lose something like $570,000 per week, the report said.””


3 posted on 01/15/2010 11:23:01 AM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark

sick of this already. Make them all go away...and take that Kate Gosselin woman with you on the way out.


4 posted on 01/15/2010 11:25:18 AM PST by FightforFreedomCA (Pelosi is a wretched, communist, b!#*&)
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To: iowamark

I think what they did to Conan is a disgrace.....and Leno should be ashamed of himself for making jokes about Conan.


5 posted on 01/15/2010 11:25:25 AM PST by Fawn (When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.)
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To: iowamark
Then Conan collects $20-million per year x 3.5 years = $70-million.

That Jeff Zucker sure is a shrewd businessman.

6 posted on 01/15/2010 11:29:48 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: iowamark
Jeff Zucker should have been selling ice cream from the back of a truck long ago.

Conan is now and has always been the most physically repulsive host in the history of television. Many, many people begged Zucker not to bring him to the network where he sent women screaming into the bathroom.

Conan should be grateful for the money he's gotten over the years entertaining stoned, frat-boys who light their gaseous emissions and not make the mistake of thinking he will be missed.

7 posted on 01/15/2010 11:35:58 AM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: iowamark

NBC

NothingButCrazies

I’m surprised they let Wanda Sykes go to FoX.


9 posted on 01/15/2010 11:56:38 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: iowamark

This is NBC’s New Coke episode.


13 posted on 01/15/2010 12:50:08 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: iowamark

Conan is a waste of space, he is just an overage 4th grader still telling potty jokes!


19 posted on 01/15/2010 1:27:25 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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