Jay Leno Show at 10
I like watching this the next mornings (love our Rogers HD PVR!) during breakfast before walking the dogs. I usually forward through most the guest interviews and singing stuff but like the monologue, headlines, and other comedy features. And Jay’s new 10 o’clock stage is awesome.
Now NBC’s affiliates were upset so NBC is apparently moving him back to 11:30 pm which understandably pissed-off Conan O’Brien who had taken over the The Tonight Show at that time. None of this affects me since I watch it the next morning anyway.
According to NBC, Leno’s show is cheaper to produce, more profitable, and helps with the fact more people (like us!) are paying subscribers who don’t watch the local networks much at all anymore and fast forward past their ads and local garbage anyway. In my opinion, both the Canadian local stations and US local affiliates need to wake-up to the fact they are based on a rapidly extincting (or already extinct) business model and need to change over to a subscriber-based model. Of course, the cable & satellite providers already know this and are already trying to replace them which brings us to the antiquated broadcast regulations protecting the old failed system. Come-on CRTC here in Canada and FCC in US, stop protecting the unwanted dinosaurs!!! Once changed, I believe all programming will be greatly improved because only what people are willing to buy are what will remain. And our populations are more than large enough to continue supporting local interest groups too; hell, they might even become profitable if they would stop shooting themselves in the foot… what a concept!
