The Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien NBC Late NIGHT Debacle

Conan's last show of his TONIGHT SHOW was Jan 22 2010. After just 7 months in the seat he was going to be forced to move to 1205am to make room for Leno before him or leave. He chose to leave..on principle that it would destroy the actual TONIGHT SHOW and that NBC had screwed him and its viewers around enough. Not to mention he got a heafty payday of $34million on his exit and Conan O'Brien will be allowed to join another network September 1 2010. So how in the Hell did all this happen? Well cut to 5 years and 7 months back.... NBC who was doing OK at the time, wanted to keep Conan O'Brien as a talent for the network so they said hey in five years you are going to get to succeed Leno and take over the hosting duties of the TONIGHT SHOW, and to Leno they said hey you've been number one, and you've had a good run so in five years you are going to retire from the show and pass the torch like Carson did with you. And it seemed for five years that was the agreement. Conan took over the seat and time came for Leno to leave and he and NBC said NO GO.... "Waaaa I want to say here" and 'Waaaa we don't want to risk you going somewhere else".... so some idiots came up with really crappy network killing idea. "Jay you will get to do you exact same show at 10 every night and we will just cancel all of our one hour dramas and put thousands of people out of work so you can stay". When this crap fest hit the airwaves the ratings were horrible....this bled into almost every NBC Affiliate losing major audiences for their nightly news and then this in turn led to even lower numbers for Conan's TONIGHT SHOW. The affiliates showed that the Leno program destroyed revenues for their news shows because of his bad lead in numbers, some over 60%. NBC paints the picture that Conan's ratings weren't that good and that's why we want to move him....NOT citing the fact that it was due to LENO's crappy lead in numbers and his destruction of any decent lead into anything that followed him. Personally LENO should have done the honorable thing and LEFT when his time at the TONIGHT SHOW was done, not to have taken a dumpy 10pm show that brought a shit storm to NBC's lineup (and cost all those prime time drama workers jobs) and especially he should not have taken back his seat from Conan!!! In fact now except for NBC's block of comedies on Thursday night there is no reason to watch anything on that network. I will be boycotting Jay Leno and anything he does and hope that others do too. Conan will hopefully be back doing what he loves on a new network sometime after September 1st.