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   On 9 Sep 2006 11:43:21 -0700, nebusj@rpi.edu wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Jim Ellwanger wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >        That was a slightly curious thing; they started up the Monday   
   >reruns ... oh, it wasn't too long after Tom Snyder returned to late   
   >night, was it?  I remember being frustrated because that messed up my   
   >projections of episode numbers for the year 2000 -- had he stuck to the   
   >original schedule he might have hit episode 1701 on the first day of   
   >2000, which would've been cute -- but I don't think we ever had a good   
   >idea why they decided that was the time to go to four-nights.   
      
   I recall an interview Conan had with a male guest, prior to Late Night   
   moving to 4 nights a week, in which the guest suggested to Conan that   
   he should do only 4 shows a week--they brought up something about   
   extra time off or devoting an extra day to make for a higher quality   
   show. I remember Conan saying what a great idea that was and that he   
   would ask NBC about it. Not long after, Conan announced they were   
   moving to 4 shows per week. The change probably delayed the death of   
   my old VCR by a couple years.   
      
   >> 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.")   
   >   
   >        And in all that time, ``Friday Night Videos/Friday Night''   
   >managed to entertain a total of nearly sixty viewers.  Friday   
   >programming was a mighty long-running mystery.   
   >   
   >        (All right, there was a little era where Friday Night Videos   
   >was interesting, but then they dumped the people with personality in   
   >favor of ... uh ... Rita Severn?  What was her name?  The one who was   
   >the wife of NBC West Coast Master Command.)   
      
   Rita was easy on the eyes. Friday Night Videos became less about the   
   music and more about the adventures of Rita. She was very pretty, at   
   least.   
      
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