NBC Expected to Give 10 P.M. (every weeknight) Show to Leno

[Newsjock]

Source: New York Times

NBC is expected to announce Tuesday that it has signed its late-night star Jay Leno to a new contract that will keep him at the network in a new format that will give him the 10 p.m. time period each weeknight for a show similar to the one he has done on NBC’s “Tonight Show” show since 1993.

... No broadcast network has ever before offered the same show in prime time five nights a week. Such so-called “stripped shows” have been a staple of daytime broadcasting.

... The daily program with Mr. Leno would effectively cut back the number of hours NBC needed to fill each week from 22 to 17.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/business/media/09leno.html?hp