NBC to Air Tonight-Lite in 2nd Week of Olympics

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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NBC said it will present what it bills as a "truncated" version of the Tonight Show during the second week of its coverage of the Winter Olympics from South Korea.

Calling it The Fallon Five, the network will air (Feb. 19-23) a five-minute version of the show, saying it will be able to fit monologues and comedy bits and/or interviews into the allotted time.

Fallon will get a full telecast Feb. 8, though starting at 12:05 a.m. Ice skating and skiing will be on NBC. He will get a full telecast starting at the regular time of 11:35 on Feb. 9, the night the opening ceremony airs.

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John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.