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According to the show's Facebook page, the title is The Conan O'brien Nightly Show

http://www.facebook.com/friends/?ref=tn#!/group.php?gid=23201543692&ref=ts

199.80.112.226 (talk) 19:12, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That page is not official. Just a fan page. Hopefully after the tour wraps in a couple of weeks, TBS will announce an official name. Until then, I think we should simply leave it The Conan O'Brien Show. Mwhayes1995 (talk) 23:53, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the official statement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHeyO2W8aPU the title is Conan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.178.149.67 (talk) 14:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Where exactly did this "cue card" come from? It hardly seems more acceptable than the title card available from TBS.   Thorncrag  02:54, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

...I see this has since been answered on the article, thanks :-)   Thorncrag  03:18, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This was done when it was speculative as "The Conan O'Brien Show" and now as "Conan." If there is no source, please do not add fan created logos. The only existing title card as of now is Conan's self created title. Thank you. Mwhayes1995 (talk) 04:06, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the part in format that said that 'Late night with Conan O'Brien aired from Tuesday to Friday up until 2008'.  ???, this never happened, it aired on every weeknight from when it debuted in 93 until it ended. - Russell

Again, unless someone can provide a verified source or article that Late Night added Monday nights to the schedule in 2008, then it needs to stay out of the article because it is not true, I think someone is making this up for some strange reason. I clearly remember watching 24 on Monday nights since it moved to Mondays in season 4 which was in January 2005 and I would stay up and watch Conan at 12:35 on NBC. I also watched it on Monday nights before that for years. Please provide a genuine source that it was never on Mondays until 2008. What was aired in it's place? Even when Heroes was on they advertised Leno and Conan being on in late night and Heroes aired on Mondays for its 4 season run. This is an absurd and unverified claim and the NPR article says nothing about it either. - Russell

This was a long time ago, but with Late Night I remember that they used to always show a rerun on Monday, and then at some point they started showing five new episodes per week. I don't remember the details, nor do I have a source at the moment. But I remember Conan announced during one show that Mondays would no longer be a rerun. --Keith111 (talk) 20:56, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well there still needs to be a verifiable source because I clearly remember that his monologue on Monday's show for several years talked about the news that day, and it was definitely before 2008. Until a source can be added that no new shows were on monday nights until 08 it needs to stay out of the article. - Russell —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.109.117.98 (talk) 21:02, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I agree it needs a source, and indeed 2008 is too recent. It happened before 2008. Also I didn't watch the first few years of Late Night, so it's certainly possible that they originally started out with five new shows per week, then switched to four, then switched back to five. The number of new shows per week could have changed any time Conan signed a new contract. --Keith111 (talk) 21:54, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This had been re-added to the article, and I removed it once again. I have absolutely no memory of Conan taking off Monday night's shows. Maybe he had been pre-empted for a couple of Mondays, being a cause to notorize the following Monday being a new show? Mwhayes1995 (talk) 02:03, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

IP has continued to re-add this information without source. I once again removed the information, citing no references. Mwhayes1995 (talk) 20:06, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps reviewing the episode listings on IMDB would help? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005277/filmoseries#tt0106052 70.71.167.232 (talk) 06:23, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think Mwhayes1995 is right, it was pre-empted by something or some such a long time ago for a period. Also, per IMDB link I think it's agreed to keep it 5-day.    Thorncrag  06:37, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Some background info and sources, at Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum. Enjoy! ;) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 23:37, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Stop. Wikipedia has a distinct policy against unnecessary verbosity. To say that the show led all late-night talk shows is sufficient for the purposes of this article. It is not necessary to specifically indicate every show in the genre. That's what PR people do to get digs into their competition and treads awfully close to violating NPOV. The only ones that need to be mentioned are the ones that directly compete with the show in the 11-12 timeslot (Daily and Colbert); the other shows have different time slots and trying to compare the different shows is like comparing apples to oranges. I did make a mention, that has since been removed, of how it fared compared to Tonight (with the margin of victory) because he used to host that show, but Kimmel and Letterman have different time slots and have no dogs in this race. They don't need to be mentioned. J. Myrle Fuller (talk) 15:50, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your assessment in keeping Tonight mentioned, and I've went ahead and removed the other two. Gage (talk) 21:11, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]