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   In article <1157582395.680078.65810@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,   
    "White Bastard"  wrote:   
      
   > Why, exactly, did he stop in the first place?   
      
   Because they finally had enough decent reruns banked.   
      
   The article Joseph linked to points out that David Letterman only ever   
   did four nights a week of new shows when he was the host of "Late   
   Night," but it's incomplete to say he did it solely because he was aping   
   Johnny Carson's 4-night-a-week schedule -- for the first few years of   
   "Late Night with David Letterman," it only aired Monday through Thursday.   
      
   Also, there was a time in the 1970s when Johnny had gotten down to a   
   3-night-a-week schedule (with one guest-hosted show and one rerun per   
   week), but that was when "The Tonight Show" was still 90 minutes.  Part   
   of the deal cutting it to 60 minutes in the early 1980s was that Johnny   
   would do four shows a week.   
      
   And what show, you may ask, kept David Letterman off Fridays at the   
   beginning?  "SCTV."  (Eventually replaced by "Friday Night Videos,"   
   which was eventually moved an hour later to make room for, at last, a   
   Friday "Late Night.")   
      
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