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...PHALANX OF CAMERAS COVered the back wall. Gray-suited CBS executives lined the side aisles. Reporters crowded into the room as if the Iran-contra hearings were on. But for David Letterman, the press conference at CBS's New York City headquarters to announce that he was jumping from NBC to CBS was just another late-night monologue...
...with her homework. I never laid a hand on Amy Fisher." He praised his old network, NBC, for behaving "honorably and as gentlemen," then remarked, "What I will miss most are the back rubs from Irving R. Levine. The man is a master." A reporter asked if any of Letterman's familiar bits, like Stupid Pet Tricks, are still the property of NBC. "They own the rights to my old ice-dancing routine," he replied. When will his new show on CBS begin? "In August," he said. "And we should probably finish up around Labor Day." Then to CBS president...
With l'affaire Letterman, everything was a joke and deadly serious at the same time. Ever since last month, when Letterman made public a lucrative offer to take his late-night talk show to CBS, the drama over whether NBC would be able to keep him was played out with flip wisecracks in front of the cameras and high-stakes maneuvering behind them. On the Tonight show, host Jay Leno made jokes about his precarious job status (one night he proposed a new theme song: Stand By Your Man); to reporters, he complained bitterly about the lack of support from...
Only in the floodlit world of network television could a simple career move cause such shock waves. If NBC were to lose Letterman, pundits warned, its entire late-night house of cards would start to collapse after four dominant decades. If CBS managed to win him, the network would be a competitive factor in late-night TV for the first time. Casual viewers studied the subtleties of Letterman's contract and debated NBC's knotty dilemma: Stick with Jay or switch to Dave? NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw couldn't escape the subject even during a vacation following his reporting sojourn...
...Entertainment president Warren Littlefieldsaid Letterman's slot will be filled by a comedyproduced by Lorne Michaels