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NBC attempted to fix this by moving Leno's show to ''The Tonight Show'''s time slot and bumping O'Brien's critically-acclaimed but ratings-poor run back a half-hour to 12:05 AM. This wasn't received well. Leno was upset about it, he had agreed to the arrangement by insisting the network promise both his and O'Brien's shows a full year before making any further decisions. The network agreed, but within less than four months they reneged. [http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/conan-obrien-says-he-wont-do-tonight-show-following-leno/ O'Brien threatened to quit], Leno had as well, and both routinely savaged NBC in their nightly opening monologues.
On January 15, 2010 Conan, tired of the whole fiasco, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100820015243/http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2010/01/15/nbc-agrees-to-pay-conan-30-million-to-leave-reports.aspx settled on a $30 million payout from NBC] (later upped to $45 million to accommodate his staff) to leave ''The Tonight Show''. O'Brien came out of the debacle with most of the public and TV writers on his side, Leno ended up taking a severe PR beating. Leno finally left the ''Tonight Show'' for real in early 2014.
On February 17, 2014 [[Jimmy Fallon]] took over the helm of the show, and as of the time of this writing appears to be a worthy successor to the program's legacy.
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