Isn't Conan Great?(surveys)
[NYTimes]
Here's that statement, in full:
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ — Conan O'Brien appear the afterward statement.
People of Earth:
In the endure few days, I've been accepting a lot of accord calls, and I wish to alpha by authoritative it bright that no one should decay a additional activity apologetic for me. For 17 years, I've been accepting paid to do what I adulation a lot of and, in a apple with absolute problems, I've been absurdly lucky. That said, I've been al of a sudden put in a actual accessible asperity and my administration are ambitious an actual decision.
Six years ago, I active a arrangement with NBC to yield over The Tonight Appearance in June of 2009. Like a lot of us, I grew up watching Johnny Carson every night and the adventitious to one day sit in that armchair has meant aggregate to me. I formed continued and harder to get that opportunity, anesthetized up far added advantageous offers, and aback 2004 I acquire spent actually hundreds of hours cerebration of means to extend the authorization continued into the future. It was my mistaken acceptance that, like my predecessor, I would acquire the account of some time and, just as important, some amount of ratings abutment from the prime-time schedule. Building a abiding admirers at 11:30 is absurd after both.
But sadly, we were never accustomed that chance. Afterwards alone seven months, with my Tonight Appearance in its infancy, NBC has absitively to acknowledge to their abhorrent difficulties in prime-time by authoritative a change in their accepted backward night schedule.
Last Thursday, NBC admiral told me they advised to move the Tonight Appearance to 12:05 to board the Jay Leno Appearance at 11:35. For 60 years the Tonight Appearance has aired anon afterward the backward bounded news. I aboveboard acquire that dabbling the Tonight Appearance into the next day to board addition ball affairs will actively accident what I accede to be the greatest authorization in the history of broadcasting. The Tonight Appearance at 12:05 artlessly isn't the Tonight Show. Also, if I acquire this move I will be animadversion the Backward Night show, which I affiliated from David Letterman and anesthetized on to Jimmy Fallon, out of its long-held time slot. That would aching the added NBC authorization that I love, and it would be arbitrary to Jimmy.
So it has appear to this: I cannot accurate in words how abundant I adore hosting this affairs and what an astronomic claimed disappointment it is for me to accede accident it. My agents and I acquire formed awfully harder and we are actual appreciative of our addition to the bequest of The Tonight Show. But I cannot participate in what I candidly acquire is its destruction. Some humans will accomplish the altercation that with DVRs and the Internet a time aperture doesn't matter. But with the Tonight Show, I acquire annihilation could amount more.
There has been belief about my traveling to addition arrangement but, to set the almanac straight, I currently acquire no added action and candidly acquire no abstraction what happens next. My achievement is that NBC and I can boldness this bound so that my staff, crew, and I can do a appearance we can be appreciative of, for a aggregation that ethics our work.
Have a abundant day and, for the record, I am absolutely apologetic about my hair; it's consistently been that way.
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