NBC Will Stream Conan

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

NBC will stream full episodes of Late Night With Conan O'Brien, the network said Thursday.

Each night's show will be available online as of noon the next day. The network calls it the first late-night (actually "late, late night") broadcast entertainment show to stream in full on a network Web site.

Conan has already had a continuing presence on the NBC site through episodes of animated broadband offering, Pale Force, which features O'Brien as a sun-challenged super hero.

According to the most recently weekly ratings, Conan dominates its on-air 12:35 a.m. time period, leading the competition by 48% in the 18-49 demo.

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.