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Conan news cut-ins

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radioguy555

I was watching my late local news on the NBC station here in Tampa, and Conan O'Brien did a little cut-in promoting tonight's show. He even mentioned the names of the two local news anchors.

Does Conan do this for all of the NBC stations? I thought it was kind of neat and hadn't seen it before.
 
well maybe for larger markets, but I don't think he does it here in Providence (DMA #52). If he did that, it would take him hours.
 
The affiliate probably has to pay all kinds of money for that. The Today Show does the same thing on certain stations during the local newscasts before the Today show starts.
 
Well, considering how Media General owns WFLA (the NBC affiliate in question in Tampa), can somebody in markets like Columbus (where MG operates sister NBC station WCMH) chime in and inform us if Conan was giving a shout-out to Cabot & Colleen?
 
DToTheJ said:
Well, considering how Media General owns WFLA (the NBC affiliate in question in Tampa), can somebody in markets like Columbus (where MG operates sister NBC station WCMH) chime in and inform us if Conan was giving a shout-out to Cabot & Colleen?
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For the record, here's the MG Peacock affiliates (listed in order of DMA):
WFLA
WNCN Raleigh
WCMH Columbus
WVTM Birmingham
WJAR Providence
WSLS Roanoke
WSAV Savannah
and WCBD Charleston, SC
 
Maybe he does it for the NBC O&O stations? WVIT-DT channel 35 (was analog 30) of New Britain/Hartford is still one of them.
 
I remember Jay Leno doing this in the late 90s for the San Francisco affiliate. He'd say something like "Hi Pete and Pam - coming up on the Tonight Show..."

Of course, San Francisco is Market #4 or #5. Jay probably only did this for the top affiliates, and maybe a few others that requested it. How long could it take? A few minutes to tape a dozen of these?
 
I've seen Jay do it on KPRC in Houston - sometimes it's a "Bill and Dominique" other times it's the generic - he may have "Made the rounds" of the larger affiliates.

As for the Today show, when I visited back in the early 90s, during the 7:25, 7:55, 8:25 and 8:55 breaks, Matt Lauer and/or Katie would do a "stand-up" for local affiliates that would air live during their pre-Today show newscast - IIRC, WMAQ and KXAS and one or two more had a feed during the 7:25 break - we could hear the audio out on the plaza. It wouldn't surprise me if one of the anchors did one of these when the other was doing a longer-form interview from a side studio...

Jim
 
Jay used to do this. I think they rotate affiliates every few weeks. There was one for WXIA/Atlanta (Gannett) that ran for a few weeks. It was not permanent.

WXIA gets a live stand-up each morning from Meredith and Matt. I don't know which affiliates qualify. I am assuming top markets (Atlanta is #8).
 
I remember seeing a commercial the other day where he was with the morning news crew here in Miami promoting his show and the local morning news show. Did Jay ever do that with your morning news show?
 
Here in the Bay Area I remember, then NBC affiliate, KRON doing live chats with the Today Show anchors. They were teasing the Today Show. It would make sense that it was live since 6:50AM here is 9:50AM New York. Now also the local CBS o/o, KPIX, does it with The Early Show. Dunno if KNTV the NBC o/o does it or not. Or ABC o/o KGO as well.

But as for Conan doing a tease during the 11pm news? Haven't seen it. I do remember Jay Lamo doing it with his guests standing around him. It looked like they taped it after his show.

I am sure Conan did the affiliate tour before the start of his Tomight Show. That is when they usually tape a few generic promos.

On the rare Late Night with Jimmy Fallon that I saw, he did a comedy skit where he had to tape 15 local spots in 60 seconds. He actually named the real anchors for the local stations, like "Stay tuned for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon after the news with Sue and Chuck here on WNBC 4 New York" Then proceeded to do more within 60 seconds. It was humorous.
 
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