Read just how dominating and successful Jay Leno has been on late night TV and see what some of the experts are saying about NBC's decision to phase him out:
This comment sums it up neatly:
<<<"So why sack him now? “I don’t get it,” says Ohlmeyer, who as president of NBC’s West Coast operations in the mid-1990s helped guide Leno to victory over Letterman. “It’s like nobody understands history. Here they take him off the air four years ago, and naturally he loses his impetus, and now he’s come back, and he’s kicking ass again—so let’s take him off.”>>>