Comments on: The NBC Late-Night Train Wreck http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/01/08/the-nbc-late-night-train-wreck/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Jeffrey Jones http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/01/08/the-nbc-late-night-train-wreck/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:22:04 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=790#comment-146 Yeah, I think both Howard Bausinger and Roger Livingstone make that point about the morning newspaper. But what neither mentioned (to my memory) is the feeling when my NYTimes doesn’t arrive, and instead, I am stuck with The Virginian-Pilot instead. While I have a paper (and the security it represents), that security (or feeling that the world is OK) is upset by being relegated to the reality presented by the VP. I guess Conan becomes the VP in this example (poor bastard).

]]> By: Jonathan Gray http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/01/08/the-nbc-late-night-train-wreck/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:44:45 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=790#comment-141 Now that this news is confirmed, may I just say Praise the Lords of Television. It was important that this experiment fail, and be noted to fail. Whereas everyone else in the country seems to know it failed, it’s good that NBC realizes that too.

But now what? SVU reruns every evening?

]]> By: Jonathan Gray http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/01/08/the-nbc-late-night-train-wreck/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:01:55 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=790#comment-135 Amen, re: daypart. Roger Silverstone’s point about television providing ontological security is rarely clearer than with latenight talk shows that rock one to sleep with inane chat, and inconsequentiality that’s just kind of warm and inviting. A firm reminder, then, was served to NBC that DVRs or no DVRs, timing still matters

]]> By: Nick Marx http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/01/08/the-nbc-late-night-train-wreck/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:32:23 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=790#comment-133 Great point about the lived experience of late night talk shows, seems like the genre (and audience) least amenable to change and most reliant on its daypart. These reports go on and on about NBC brass and affiliates, but no one mentions how Leno’s move to prime-time disrupted the sleeping patterns of old people everywhere.

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