I think it's a HUGE mistake giving Conan the Tonight Show. He's way to silly for that time slot and extremely predictible. Just watch his show....here's is routine night after night; After his announcer says "Conan O'Briiiiiiannnnn" he walks out to the middle of the stage with his head sligtly tilted down. He stops and makes a quick left turn toward the camera/audience. Walks about 10 steps forward while buttoning his coat and stops. Does his little jump routine and his wind-up restlting in pointing at Max Weinberg. Spins around once. Points to various parts of the studio audience while making some noises and mugging the camera. Finally, he tops it off with some weird faces and noises that are influenced by the person in the audience that made the loudest or most obnoxious noise during the end of the applause.

How predictable! And it's the same crap every night.

They should just keep Conan in NYC and just update his set to say the Tonight Show since most of the crew and his band has deep ties to the North East.

Even though I''ve never been inside the building, I think it''s sad that the home of The Tonight Show w/Johnny Carson, Rowan & Martin''s Laugh-in, The Dean Martin Show, and many other great shows, is probably going to be turned into wherehouse...or something worse.

Interesting as This Saturday, April 28, 2008 is the 50th anniversary of
the dedication of Videotape Central at NBC Burbank.

Is anyone planning a party or other marking of the occasion?

The tape facility inside 3000 West Alameda (at Olive Ave.) cost $1.5
million (1958 dollars)

The facility included one RCA Color Video Tape Recorder and eight
Ampex black-and-white machines that could record color using with
RCA Labs hetrodyne electronics.

NBC began time-zone delay from the Burbank tape facility when
Daylight Savings Time occurred in 1958.

Soon, three more RCA Broadcast Color Recorders were at work.

Pre-recording programs in Burbank happened later.

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