Leno to Retire from 'Tonight Show' in 2009
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Jay Leno, America's leading  late-night comedian as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show," will  retire at the end of his current five-year contract in 2009 and  be replaced by Conan O'Brien, the network said on Monday.
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Comedian Conan O&#39;Brien has been picked to succeed Jay Leno as host of NBC&#39;s ``Tonight Show&#39;&#39; when Leno&#39;s contract expires in 2009, the television network owned by General Electric Co.
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Jay Leno, America's leading late-night comedian as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show," will retire in 2009 and be replaced by Conan O'Brien, the offbeat comic whose own show airs an hour later, the network said on Monday.
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(New York-NBC/AP) Dec. 3, 2004 - It looks like Tom Brokaw went out with a bang after nearly 23 years. He left &quot;NBC Nightly News&quot; on a ratings high Wednesday night as nearly 15.5 million people tuned in to watch him sign off.
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NBC announced Monday that Conan O'Brien will take over from Jay Leno as host of the "Tonight" show. But he'll have time to write his jokes &#151; the planned succession won't happen until 2009.
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NEW YORK Sept. 27, 2004 - NBC chose the 50th anniversary of the &quot;Tonight&quot; show on Monday to announce that Jay Leno will be succeeded by &quot;Late Night&quot; host Conan O&#39;Brien in five years or thousands of jokes from now.
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David Letterman isn't going anywhere. CBS Corp. announced Monday that the late-night funnyman has signed a contract to stay on the air until at least 2010. It was widely reported in September that Letterman had agreed to the deal.
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The ``Tonight Show&#39;&#39; host announced yesterday that he will step down five years from now, in 2009. Broadcaster NBC said he will be succeeded by Conan O&#39;Brien, whose talk show airs immediately after Leno&#39;s.
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NEW YORK  Â The striking writers union told member Jay Leno on Thursday that he violated its rules by penning and delivering punch lines in his first "Tonight Show" monologue in two months on NBC the night before.
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LOS ANGELES  - The Comedy Central  late-night series "Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn" has likely  reached the end of its run.
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When Tom Brokaw signs off from &quot;The NBC Nightly News&quot; tonight after 21 years in the anchor chair, he&#39;ll take a lot of good feelings with him.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" for nearly 30 years -- and the last face millions of Americans saw before drifting off to sleep -- died on Sunday at age 79.
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Tina Fey is leaving the anchor chair at "Saturday Night Live." Fey says she's quitting the show after six seasons as head writer and co-anchor of the "Weekend Update" fake news segment to focus on her new NBC prime-time series, "30 Rock."
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Floyd Landis was set to make a triumphant post-Tour de France appearance on the "Tonight Show." Instead, the cyclist may end up as comedy fodder for host Jay Leno.
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NBC will announce today that Conan O'Brien will succeed Jay Leno as host of the ``Tonight'' show at the end of Mr. Leno's current five-year contract, in 2009.
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Jay Leno, host of The Tonight Show since May 25, 1992, will hand over the most coveted reins in America&#39;s stand-up comic industry to Conan O&#39;Brien, who currently hosts the Late Night show on NBC.
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NEW YORK - Top-ranked shock jock Howard Stern said Wednesday that he will abandon his syndicated morning radio show to join Sirius satellite radio in 15 months, freeing him from government regulators and allowing him to "bring my fans my show my way."  "I've decided what my future is," Stern told his millions of listeners in announcing his five-year, multimillion-dollar contract. "It's not this kind of radio any more."   Stern, who battled for years with the FCC and conservative critics over his salacious show's content, will move to the national distributor of commercial-free music and sport programming when his contract with Infinity Broadcasting expires in 15 months...