Jay Leno

The gap between America's super-wealthy and the rest of us has grown so vast it's hard to even comprehend the sums they spend on their luxuries. But if you measure, say, a $200 million luxury yacht in terms of the average U.S. family's household income, the picture comes back into focus.

Matthew Biberman had a story to tell about his dad and a one-of-a-kind motorcycle, and he soon turned his passion into a book deal. But the newly published author says the book deal is just the beginning -- learning how to pitch your story is what builds audiences.

It's not just that his new talk show Conan is attracting a huge audience -- more than 4.1 million for its first night -- but they're young as well. And advertisers are willing to pay a premium to reach these viewers because they're so difficult to find.

Now that Jay Leno has returned to host NBC's Tonight Show, the show is climbing back to the top of late-night ratings. Problem is -- and not just for Leno, but for Letterman and others -- post-prime-time audiences are getting sparser and older.

TBS, the cable network owned by Time Warner, announced Monday that it will create a new late-night show for Conan O'Brien, who left The Tonight Show in January after NBC told him it was giving the 11:30 p.m. time slot back to Jay Leno.

NBC did serious harm to Jay Leno's public image when it tossed out its late-night succession plan in January. The number of people who view Leno unfavorably rose dramatically in the weeks after the network said it was moving him from 10 p.m. back to 11:30, displacing Conan O'Brien.

Did you miss him? Jay Leno returns tonight to his long-time gig as host of the Tonight Show, and NBC is hoping it will be like he never left. Leno's first guests are Jamie Foxx, Olympic skiier Lindsay Vonn (straight from the Vancouver closing ceremonies, I hope she's awake!) and country singer Brad...

During Congressional testimony Thursday, top executives from Comcast and NBC Universal pledged to restore the luster of the beleaguered Peacock Network, which has suffered through low ratings, a dearth of hit shows, and most recently, the Leno-Conan debacle.

Conan O'Brien is out of a job now that his last gig on "The Tonight Show" has aired, but like many unemployed people, he'll probably find losing his job to be the best move of his career. The $32.5 million severance he's getting from NBC is enough to take care of him for life, but that's not the...

Our long national nightmare is over: Conan O'Brien and NBC are parting ways in peace, if not amity. In a deal expected to be announced officially later Thursday, the network will pay the Tonight Show host $32 million to walk away.