{"id":174063,"date":"2010-01-13T09:41:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=88565"},"modified":"2010-01-13T09:41:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:41:42","slug":"does-nbc-have-the-right-to-bump-conan-contract-doesn%e2%80%99t-specify-timeslot-network-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/174063","title":{"rendered":"Does NBC Have The Right To Bump Conan? Contract Doesn\u2019t Specify Timeslot, Network Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Tuesday, Conan O’Brien said he will not carry on as host of NBC’s The Tonight Show<\/em> if the struggling network moves the late night program to an after-midnight slot as part of a revamped evening line-up. So the question on the minds of fans is, Does Conan’s contract give NBC the right to bump him to 12:05 AM to make room for Jay Leno at 11:35?<\/p>\n

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That’s also the $40 million legal question at the center of all the hoopla. If Conan’s deal says The Tonight Show<\/em> will be broadcast at 11:35 PM, then NBC would be in violation of his contract by attempting to bump him. However, if there isn’t any time-slot language in his deal, Conan’s absolute refusal to take the 12:05 slot puts him in breach of his contract if he doesn’t do his show.<\/p>\n

The Peacock has already made its stance clear, according to The New York Times<\/a>: “The contract, NBC is arguing, guaranteed Mr. O’Brien would be installed as host of ‘The Tonight Show’ — and unlike many other deals for late-night stars, Mr. O’Brien’s contract contains no specific language about the time period the show would occupy, NBC executives said.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, Conan O’Brien said he will not carry on as host of NBC’s The Tonight Show if the struggling network moves the late night program to an after-midnight slot as part of a revamped evening line-up. So the question on the minds of fans is, Does Conan’s contract give NBC the right to bump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}