Late Night with David Letterman

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Television series
Original title Late Night with David Letterman
Country of production United StatesUnited States United States
Year (s) 1982-1993
Broadcasting
cycle		 Mondays - Fridays
genre Late night show
production Jack Rollins
David Letterman
Robert Morton
Moderation David Letterman
First broadcast February 1, 1982 on NBC

Late Night with David Letterman was a daily late night show on NBC hosted by David Letterman . It premiered in 1982 and ran until June 25, 1993, when Letterman left NBC to switch his show to CBS under the new name Late Show . It was followed by Late Night with Conan O'Brien .

history

David Letterman went on air in 1982 as the follow-up to the Tomorrow Show starring Tom Snyder . In 1993 NBC had to find a successor to Johnny Carson and his Tonight Show (which he had hosted for 30 years). NBC awarded the position to stand-up comedian Jay Leno . Letterman, who had been promised the job years earlier, was very upset and disappointed. In public, Letterman claimed that he had received an offer from NBC, but that it could not compete with the one from CBS - NBC commented that such an offer had never been made and that the station had chosen Leno. Letterman decided to leave NBC and take on the Tonight Show with his new show on CBS . Up to this point, 1810 shows had been broadcast over a period of 11.5 years.

Switch to CBS

In 1993, Letterman and his team moved to the broadcaster CBS, but his show remained practically unchanged. On April 25, 1993, NBC decided on the then largely unknown Simpsons author Conan O'Brien as the successor to Letterman. The name "Late Night with ...", which was owned by NBC, was retained ( Late Night with Conan O'Brien ).

Individual evidence

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  6. ↑ Bill Zehme: David Letterman: The Rolling Stone Interview. In: Rolling Stone. February 18, 1993, accessed January 27, 2020 .
  7. ^ Bill Carter: Gloves Off Among Late-Night's Gladiators. In: The New York Times. June 16, 1991, accessed January 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Bill Carter: Behind The Headlines In The Leno - Letterman War. In: The New York Times Magazine. January 30, 1994, accessed January 27, 2020 .
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  11. ↑ Frazier Moore: CBS boss who signed Letterman looks back at how it all happened. In: The Spokesman Review. May 14, 2015, accessed on January 27, 2020 .
  12. ^ The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica: David Letterman. In: Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., December 11, 2019, accessed January 27, 2020 .