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There is no bigger story on any network this fall amp8211 and thus no bigger story at the Summer 2009 Television Critics Association tour than NBC giving five hours of weekly primetime real estate to Jay Leno As of yesterday morning it appeared that everyone understood the size the scope and the historical importance of The Jay Leno Show except for NBCThe first press conference of the day was with Angela Bromstad President of Primetime Entertainment NBC and Universal Media Studios and Paul Telegdy Executive Vice President Alternative Programming and Production NBC and Universal Media Studios amp8211 the two executives who were anointed the new faces of NBC at the January TCA tour rather than Marc Graboff and Ben Silverman who were CoChairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios at the time It is a decadeslong tradition that each broadcast network begins its segment of the TCA tour with an appearance by its top programming executive or executives So reporters turned out in droves yesterday morning to ask a couple of questions about the soon to depart Silverman a few about the network39s new fall shows and a whole bunch about Jay Leno and his Tonight Show replacement Conan O39Brien O39Brien being the biggest TV story of the summer and allStrangely Bromstad and Telegdy seemed utterly incapable of answering questions about Leno or O39Brien But the press wanted answersEd Martin39s full live coverage from the Television Critics Association tour is available exclusively to corporate subscribers of the Jack Myers Media Business Report For more information visit wwwmyersreportcom If you are a corporate subscriber Click Here to log in

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