Ed Martin Live at TCA: NBC at TCA: It Was All About Leno | short

There is no bigger story on any network this fall – 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 NBC!

The 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 – 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 Co-Chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios at the time. It is a decades-long 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 network's new fall shows and a whole bunch about Jay Leno and his Tonight Show replacement, Conan O'Brien (O'Brien being the biggest TV story of the summer and all).

Strangely, Bromstad and Telegdy seemed utterly incapable of answering questions about Leno or O'Brien. But the press wanted answers...

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