Is Conan O’Brien really going to leave NBC? That is what new sources indicated that might be the case. Read the facts and a reconstruction in this article.

NBC executives met with Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien on Thursday, January 7, 2010 to discuss how to get Jay Leno out of prime time where his ratings were not so well to get him back into late night. A proposal was made that would see O’Brien remain as host of The Tonight Show, which would be moved to 12:05 am, with Leno hosting a 30 minute show at 11:35. On January 10, NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin confirmed that The Jay Leno Show will indeed end at the start of the Winter Olympics on February 12, 2010, and be moved to 11:35 pm following the Olympics coverage.

O’Brien wasn’t happy with the plan and released a statement on January 12 stating “I sincerely believe that delaying The Tonight Show into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting. The Tonight Show at 12:05 simply isn’t The Tonight Show.”

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After the news hit the media O’Brien made a joke about Jay Leno in his show: “Hosting the ‘Tonight Show’ has been a fulfillment of a lifelong dream to me,” he said. “I just want to say to the kids out there: ‘You can do anything you want in life — unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.”

The representatives of NBC and Conan O’Brien are meeting to try to hammer out the final points of the situation. It is being reported that Conan O’Brien will get $32 million dollars to leave The Tonight Show, and he has negotiated around $7.5 million for his staff. Many people on his staff moved with Conan to Los Angeles from New York when he left Late Night.

Executives at the FOX network have said that they would like to have O’Brien but they are waiting on the outcome of the deal between NBC and O’Brien which is currently being made.

The best thing so far is that the ongoing riot between Conan O’Brien and NBC has been great for the ratings of both shows.