Originally Posted by 6000

There are many things to consider here:

1) Upon Conan's 2004 signing of the contract to take over the Tonight Show on June 1, 2009, Leno was set to retire...recently, he decided that he wanted to stay and made noise about going to another network. This would compete with Conan so NBC decided the best thing to do would be to keep him in house and not take away from the Tonight Show.

2) Max Weinberg has decided that he will remain the bandleader for Conan upon the move to Los Angeles...this should tell Springsteen fans a thing or two about Weinberg's future role in the band beyond June 1, 2009.

3) NBC is reportedly second-guessing their decision to have Conan take over the Tonight Show...this may be their way of having Leno wait in the wings in case Conan should flop...