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"the tonight show" to conan o'brien. >> thank you, everybody. thank you for watching. please give conan as much support as you've given me throughout the years. >> reporter: publicly the transition is positive. behind the scenes, tumultuous. nbc contractual agreements had guaranteed conan "the tonight show." but the network doesn't want to lose jay to a competitor. >> because he's number one. nobody takes the number one guy off the air. >> it's "the jay leno show." >> reporter: nbc's solution? give jay a show in primetime to save the network the higher costs involved in producing scripted dram...

>> thank you, everybody. thank you for watching. please give conan as much applause as you've given me. >> behind the scenes, tumultuous. the network doesn't want to lose jay to a competitor. >> because he's number one. >> nbc's solution? give jay a show in primetime to save the network the higher cost in producing scripted dramas and keep leno in the fold. >> it's a sound move, but for jay, it was not sound, because he was doing something weird. it was not something the audience had ever seen before. >> we've been off the air for three months, or as most people in hollywood call that, rehab. ...