{"id":85,"date":"2015-09-11T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2015-09-11T17:17:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T22:17:46","slug":"johnny-carson-returns-to-tv-january-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/11\/johnny-carson-returns-to-tv-january-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Carson Returns to TV January 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" style=\"width: 829px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carson-bb17-10517.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-89 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carson-bb17-10517.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Carson Photo From Morty's TV\" width=\"829\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carson-bb17-10517.jpg 829w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carson-bb17-10517-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Carson Photo From Morty&#8217;s TV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From 1962 to 1992, Johnny Carson was the king of late night TV. In 1992 Carson retired, and any hopes of a return to TV were squelched in January of 2005 when Carson died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of respiratory failure arising from emphysema.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;ve missed Carson, but there&#8217;s good news, Johnny Carson is returning to TV, Antenna TV. The Tribune-owned digital network specializing in oldies shows, will start airing classic episodes of the Carson-hosted <em>\u201cTonight Show\u201d<\/em> The full-length episodes of \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson\u201d will air nightly at 11 p.m. ET\/8 p.m. PT with a repeat following at 2 a.m.<\/p><div id=\"morty-5254921\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Antenna TV has struck a multi-year deal with Carson Entertainment Group to license hundreds of hours of the NBC late-night institution. Antenna will run episodes that aired from 1972 through the end of Carson\u2019s 30-year reign in in 1992. Because NBC owns the rights to <em>\u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d<\/em> moniker, Antenna TV\u2019s episodes will be billed simply as <em>\u201cJohnny Carson.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a clip show. This is full episodes of <em>Johnny Carson<\/em>, the man that everyone in late-night agrees was the greatest host of all time, airing in real time as he did back in the day,\u201d Sean Compton, Tribune\u2019s president of strategic programming and acquisitions, told Variety. \u201cTuning in to<em> \u2018The Tonight Show\u2019<\/em> is like taking a walk down Main Street in Disneyland. The minute you step in there, you feel good and you know it\u2019s a place you want to stay. We cannot wait to bring this show to fans who remember Carson and to a new generation of viewers who have never had the chance to see Johnny in his prime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On August 12th Carson Entertainment made an announcement with the details:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d<\/em> ran in a 90-minute format from the start of Carson\u2019s run in 1962 until 1980, when it was trimmed to an hour. Antenna will air hourlong episodes on weeknights and 90-minute installments on Saturday and Sunday at 10 p.m. ET\/7 p.m. PT.<\/p><div id=\"morty-3916082093\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The scheduling of episodes will be carefully curated to run as themed weeks or months, as well as episodes that coincide with notable anniversaries, holidays and other milestones. Those could include everything from a week\u2019s worth of <em>\u201cTonight Show\u201d<\/em> debuts by future comedy superstars such as Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres, Richard Pryor, David Letterman, Jim Carrey and Tim Allen to a month of Christmas episodes in December. Antenna\u2019s <em>\u201cTonight Show\u201d<\/em> run will begin with the New Year\u2019s Day episode from 1982 featuring Eddie Murphy and<em> \u201cMASH\u201d<\/em> star McLean Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p>With all the hubbub over changes in late-night TV during the past two years, Compton had the idea to revive Carson\u2019s<em> \u201cTonight Show\u201d<\/em> in a big way. Carson Entertainment Group, headed by Jeff Sotzing, Carson\u2019s nephew, was immediately receptive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a demographic out there that is really going to eat this up,\u201d Sotzing told Variety. \u201cThe show will now be able to be seen by so many people who haven\u2019t seen it before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deal involved nearly six months of negotiations with Hollywood\u2019s talent guilds and the American Federation of Musicians. The talks were complicated because there\u2019s not much precedent for residual fees for full-length reruns of a vintage variety show re-airing on a digital broadcast channel. A few weeks ago the deal almost fell apart over cost issues that seemed insurmountable, but Compton and his team kept hammering away until compromises were reached.<\/p>\n<p>Tribune execs are determined to keep each episode as intact as possible \u2014 which means negotiating new agreements for the show\u2019s many musical performances on an episode-by-episode basis, in most cases.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carson-bb17-10519.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"group1 wp-image-87 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carson-bb17-10519-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Carson as Art Fern  &amp; Carol Wayne as the Tea Time  Matinee Lady\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carson-bb17-10519-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carson-bb17-10519-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/carson-bb17-10519-57x57.jpg 57w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Carson as Art Fern &amp; Carol Wayne as the Tea Time Matinee Lady<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The full-length segments will re-introduce viewers to the show that cemented the template for the late-night talk-variety format, from the monologue to goofy banter with sidekicks to showcasing promising comedians. Carson also invented a host of characters over the years, including Carnac the Magnificent, Art Fern and Aunt Blabby, as well the leading the \u201cMighty Carson Art Players\u201d sketches. Carson, Ed McMahon and bandleader Doc Severinsen were also famous for doing in-program commercials. Tribune\u2019s sales department is looking to set up creative sponsorship deals piggybacking on those now-priceless integrations, Compton said.<\/p>\n<p>Carson Entertainment has marketed home video releases of full-length \u201cTonight Show\u201d episodes in the past. But that\u2019s not the same as being able to tune in every night as the show originally aired.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the first 10 years of Carson\u2019s \u201cTonight Show\u201d are lost to history, with only a handful of episodes that survive. When the \u201cTonight Show\u201d made its historic move from New York to Burbank in 1972, Carson realized that NBC had no archive of his older episodes. From then on, Carson Entertainment invested in state-of-the-art archival technology to preserve his legacy \u2014 a focus that continues today.<\/p>\n<p>The 1972-1992 episodes have been digitized and meticulously transcribed and cataloged. The master tapes are buried 600 feet below the earth in a salt mine in Hutchinson, Kan. There are multiple digital copies housed in safe locations as well, according to Sotzing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to spend money to protect the library and make sure it\u2019s a working library,\u201d he said. With digital technology, \u201cit\u2019s amazing how we have gone from 50-pound two-inch videotapes to having hundreds of shows on a single (computer) drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carson was pleasantly surprised after his retirement that there was a home video market for older \u201cTonight Show\u201d episodes. Sotzing said he has no doubt his uncle would be happy that his life\u2019s work still had value to a modern TV network.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2011, Antenna TV is carried on the multicast channels of broadcast TV stations around the country, including Tribune-owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other top markets. All told, Antenna at present is available in 102 TV markets reaching 78% of the nation\u2019s television households. Antenna does not have broad SVOD rights to the \u201cTonight Show\u201d episodes but will be able to make them available on a limited basis for authenticated streaming through MVPD partners.<\/p>\n<p>Antenna\u2019s schedule lineup at present is anchored by such evergreens as<em> \u201cAll in the Family,\u201d \u201cBewitched,\u201d \u201cGreen Acres,\u201d \u201cFather Knows Best,\u201d \u201cThe Partridge Family\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cLeave It to Beaver.\u201d<\/em> The investment in Carson\u2019s <em>\u201cTonight Show\u201d<\/em> library is a sign that Tribune is ready to raise the profile of Antenna TV. The channel is profitable even with a modest, older-skewing audience. The hope is that a combination of nostalgia and interest in the legend of Carson will drive broader sampling of the channel.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>\u201cTonight Show\u201d<\/em> project has been a labor of love for Compton, who has screened hundreds of episodes to prepare for assembling the themed packages. The plan is for Antenna to be nimble in programming episodes on short notice to respond to headlines and current events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Johnny you just have everything,\u201d Compton enthused. \u201cOn the night of (the 2016) Indy 500, we\u2019ll have an episode of Johnny talking about about the race. On Christmas Eve, we\u2019ll have an episode with Jimmy Stewart telling stories about the making of \u2018It\u2019s a Wonderful Life.\u2019 Our possibilities are endless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antennatv.tv\/interactive-affiliate-map\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> to find the\u00a0Antenna TV station affiliate in your area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1962 to 1992, Johnny Carson was the king of late night TV. In 1992 Carson retired, and any hopes of a return to TV were squelched in January of 2005 when Carson died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of respiratory failure arising from emphysema. 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