The Late shift : Letterman, Leno, and the network battle for the night / Bill Carter

By: Carter, Bill, 1949- [author]Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Hyperion, c1994Description: ix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9781562827540Subject(s): TELEVISION TALK SHOWS -- UNITED STATES | LETTERMAN, DAVID | LENO, JAY | TONIGHT SHOW (TELEVISION PROGRAM)LOC classification: PN 1992.T63 .C37 1994Online resources: Publisher description
Contents:
No more to come -- The Empire of the night -- The Campaign -- Stupid network tricks -- Bridges burned -- Good cop, bad cop -- Psychology 101 -- This is . . . CBS -- The East/West game -- Choose your partners -- The Second front -- Clash by night -- What have you done for me lately?
Summary: On May 23, 1991, Johnny Carson stepped out onto the stage of New York's Carnegie Hall at the annual meeting of NBC affiliate stations - the final performer in the day's all-star lineup of NBC players, there to dazzle the affiliates with the power of the network's programming. But Carson had his own agenda: without any warning to his NBC bosses, he announced that he was leaving the "Tonight" show - NBC's flagship
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Special Collection General Circulation GC PN 1992.T63 .C37 1994 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000019798

Includes index.

No more to come -- The Empire of the night -- The Campaign -- Stupid network tricks -- Bridges burned -- Good cop, bad cop -- Psychology 101 -- This is . . . CBS -- The East/West game -- Choose your partners -- The Second front -- Clash by night -- What have you done for me lately?


On May 23, 1991, Johnny Carson stepped out onto the stage of New York's Carnegie Hall at the annual meeting of NBC affiliate stations - the final performer in the day's all-star lineup of NBC players, there to dazzle the affiliates with the power of the network's programming. But Carson had his own agenda: without any warning to his NBC bosses, he announced that he was leaving the "Tonight" show - NBC's flagship

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