Talk:Late Night with David Letterman

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[edit] A&E and E! and VHS

Someone who knows or has a bit more info in this subject should add this in. At the time David Letterman left Late Night, two of the other reasons he was said to have left (besides not getting the Tonight Show gig) was that NBC, which owned the rights to Late Night, sold the repeats to A&E which them broadcast them from about 1991-1993, then resold the rights to the E! channel which aired them starting around 1994 and into the mid-1990's. In addition, they started to sell the episodes packaged without the musical guest on VHS. Letterman reportadly received little or nothing from these deals and was quite upset.

[edit] Bookmobile

Does anyone remember the bookmobile recurring segment? I think it was called the "NBC Bookmobile" but I'm not sure. Kathleen Ankers was the librarian, I believe, and someone played "Gus", the driver, always introduced as "gruff but loveable" (or something like that). Ray Spalding 23:11, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I finally added it to the list Ray Spalding 07:23, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm surprised there's no mention of any times that the show left New York to be recorded elsewhere. There was a very memorable week in the late 1980s where Late Night was recorded in Chicago. Guests included Michael Jordan, Mayor Daley (who presented Letterman with a manhole cover), Jay Leno.... --JohnDBuell | Talk 02:55, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moving

Why does it say he moved to CBS for a better money deal? He moved there cause Jay leno was selected to host and he wanted to go to CBS more than the other stations that wanted him Mike 20:22, 16 January 2006 (UTC)