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5. Agreed. As far back as 15 years ago, I read Bill Carter's book about the Conan O'Brien Tonight Show disaster, and even

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back then television executives/producers were telling Carter that the days of the expensive late night talk show with the multimillion dollar a year host and the big costly writing staff were numbered - that the audience numbers were just no longer there to justify it.

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