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Is Leno Jaywalking Out of NBC?

Posted May 13, 08 6:28 CDT in Arts & Living,  Business 

(Newser) – Jay Leno is probably leaving NBC when Conan O’Brien takes over the “Tonight Show,” an NBC executive said yesterday. After a news conference unveiling Jimmy Fallon as O’Brien’s 12:35 replacement, NBC Entertainment co-chair Ben Silverman said the network would try to keep Leno on board, but “I think it’s a reach.”

It’s not clear when precisely Fallon will take over for O’Brien, but it will likely be around the time O’Brien takes over the "Tonight Show" in June 2009. Fallon said he’s been looking forward to the gig since age 5, when his kindergarten yearbook named him “most likely to take over for David Letterman.”

Source New York Times

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Jay Leno leaves at the annual Vanity Fair Oscar party at Morton's in West Hollywood, Calif., in this Feb. 25, 2007, file photo.   (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, file)
Jay Leno, host of NBC's "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" is shown in this Sept. 18, 2001, file photo at NBC studios in Burbank, Calif.   (AP Photo/Lee Celano, file)
Jimmy Fallon speaks at a news conference on Monday, May 12, 2008, in New York, where he was named the new host of NBC's "Late Night" show, when Conan O'Brien takes over the "Tonight Show."   (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
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