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...Carson says that he does not. Basing his case on a California law barring certain personal contracts from being extended beyond seven years, he claims that he has in fact been a free agent since last April-seven years from the signing of his 1972 pact. NBC asserts that there have been three separate agreements since then, the last of which not only gave Carson more money but reduced the hours he has to spend as host of the Tonight show...
...reported to bring in 17% of the network's pretax earnings, and it is a special prize for the affiliates, which can sell 50 minutes of local commercials on the show each week, compared with only 33 minutes for all of a week's prime time. If Carson, NBC'S top star, jumps to another network, presumably first-place ABC, more of NBC'S affiliates may abandon Silverman's leaky ship...
...troubles really started when Silverman arrived at NBC in June 1978. For years the network had taken care to soothe Carson, and Senior Vice President Dave Tebet provided him with champagne, flowers, limousines and all the other things a supercharged ego needs. Tebet left in the reshuffle after Silverman took over, and the Dom Perignon was forgotten. Carson was further annoyed when the new president, in an appearance on his anniversary show, was tongue-tied on-camera. He was infuriated when Silverman later prodded him publicly to appear on the show more often...
Executives at ABC, by contrast, were exuberant in their praise after Carson's performance as host of the Academy Awards on their network in April, and they gave him an expensive ostrich-skin attaché case. Last June, Carson, vacationing on the French Riviera, found himself staying at the same hotel as ABC Executives Elton Rule and Fred Pierce. They went sailing, and Carson told friends that he developed a fast rapport with the men from...
Even if NBC wins the court case, it may find that a disgruntled star is worse than no star at all. Carson has taken to using his show to ridicule the network. "NBC is kind of desperate,: he told his audience last week. "I understand that for every NBC show you watch, you'll get a $400 rebate."It was one of his funniest lines, but it doubtless caused little laughter in the Silverman household...