Late night scandal

So the Tonight show with Conan Obrien is officially being reset back to Jay Leno. Obrien is being forced out to the tune of a almost $40 million dollar severance package, and will be release from his network contract within a year. Leno goes back to hosting the Tonight show, and his primetime show is cancelled.

This has been a remarkably bad move for NBC. They lose Conan with alot of bad blood. They are also keeping the rights to his segments and characters from late night and tonight.
They of course can't use any of these characters since even though they own the rights, everyone connects them with Obrien. It's just a play to try to prevent Obrien from succeeding without them. Yea, cause that worked so well on Letterman.

The bigger problem for NBC is that they are losing their late-night anchor right as their station is about to go into the broadcasting failure that is the olympics. So Conan leaves next friday, then nothing until March. So Fimmy Fallon will likely keep his normal viewers, but will lose his hip-lead in. Leno however, is fucked. Different timeslot, different show, audience hostility, and a month of downtime while the other late night shows suck up all of the viewers that NBC is shedding. Leno will return to zero audience.

The only one who profits from this is Letterman. Due to NBC's retardation, everyone has forgotten about his sex scandal.

So here is my prediction- 3 months from now NBC will have entirely lost the 10-midnight timeslot. Letterman and Kimmel will control latenight, and there is nothing they can do about it. Conan will make guest appearances all over TV to attempt to keep his popularity up until his contract ends, then he'll pitch a show to one of the other networks. So another network gets to try their hand at late night, and NBC officially loses late night, due to their own stupidity.

So good job there NBC, piece by piece you are killing your own network.