From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Jim Ellwanger  writes:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   >> 	So, what do you figure's more likely: Conan negotiates an   
   >> exemption clause with the Writers Guild, like Carson and Letterman   
   >> did in 1988, to return writer-less sometime next month, or that he   
   >> stays off and NBC's plan to bring in substitute hosts for The   
   >> Tonight Show and for Late Night happens?   
      
   >I think the substitute-host idea is a non-starter; I don't think they'd   
   >be able to get many guests to cross the picket lines and be on the shows.   
      
   	It's very hard to see how it would work out, but I think the   
   real problem is finding a host.  It'd be like being one of 1994's set   
   of replacement baseball folks -- when the strike ended, whoever was a   
   replacement would have an awful time getting the guild writers to   
   write back.  About the only way to make a replacement host work is to   
   transfer the timeslots to the News division and have someone with   
   indisputible news credentials hosting it.  That would be interesting,   
   certainly, but I doubt Entertainment would put up with that since it   
   just might be good for ratings that way.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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