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NBC Universal chairman Jeff Zucker is spending $40 million of General Electric's money to get rid of Conan O'Brien. NBC was contractually bound to give O'Brien $40 million if it canceled the show -- but it also buys Zucker a non-disparagement clause from the late-night comic.

Out of luck and out of jobs as the nation slowly tries to emerge from a recession, many Americans are finding in Conan O'Brien what they can't find elsewhere -- dignity in telling The Man to take a hike. In O'Brien's fight to keep his job as host of "The Tonight Show" and its coveted 11:35 p.m....

NBC Universal's chairman failed to anticipate that Jay Leno wouldn't want to take early retirement, or how audiences would turn him off in prime time. Now he's preparing to demote O'Brien to coddle Leno, whose best days are clearly behind him.

NBC has got quite a mountain to climb after the disastrous Jay Leno Show experiment. But getting consumers to give a second chance to a product they've stopped using is one of the biggest challenges in marketing.

NBC executives appear ready to move Jay Leno back to late night TV. The Leno disaster, which will cost the network tens of millions of dollars, was avoidable, and will likely be discussed in business schools for decades to come.

Is a deal with Satan the kind of thing you're required to disclose in a proxy statement? If so, I'll be very curious to see the one filed after Comcast (CMCSA) completes its takeover of NBC Universal (GE). It's hard to imagine what else could account for the continuing employment of Jeff Zucker as...