Even Post-NBC, Jeff Zucker Still Has No Regrets on Tonight Show Fiasco
Former NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker spoke at the Promax/BDA conference in New York Wednesday, and his handling of Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show and Jay Leno’s 10 p.m. show came up.
Zucker stood firm on the matter, saying that they made the right decision:
“What I regret is that neither show worked. That is really what happened, neither show worked. So we had to make a decision on how to fix both. I think we went with the one that we thought would attract the largest audience, and the broadest viewership.
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