How TBS outfoxed Fox to land Conan Cable network went all in to woo O’Brien whi
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How TBS outfoxed Fox to land Conan Cable network went all in to woo O’Brien while Fox hammered out detailsHow TBS outfoxed Fox to land Conan Cable network went all in to woo O’Brien while Fox hammered out detailsTBS stepped up. Fox took its time.Concrete Mixing StationAnd that's why Conan is headed to cable.This is a still-breaking story, but people close to the negotiations say that TBS' all-out assault on Team Coco ultimately led to O'Brien's decision to break off talks with Fox and sign with the cable network.
"Fox would've been great," a person familiar with the situation said. "There was probably a deal to be made,网站优化, but in the middle of this whole process, TBS came in. And they were very aggressive."Indeed, TBS wasn't even on the Coco radar until about three weeks ago. Conan's reps had heard the network was interested, but there were no talks.But then the network's team began barraging O'Brien's reps — WME and Gavin Polone — with an all-out charm and sales offensive. That lead to a meeting about two weeks ago, at WME's Beverly Hills headquarters, between O'Brien himself and top reps from Turner.A priorityConcrete Mixing StationAt Fox, Conan would be the guy the network was trying to make fit in, trying to sell to affiliates. At TBS, he'd be the center of the network's universe, a priority."We'll be a big deal at TBS. I don't know that we would've been a big deal at Fox," a source close to O'Brien's team said.That said, there doesn't appear to be any animosity from Team Coco toward Fox. Or vice versa."Conan is a great talent and we wish him every success," the network said.Concrete Mixing Station"The timing was just bad," a Conan insider explained, pointing to the slew of high-profile syndicated shows about to land on Fox-owned stations in coming years.#x相关的主题文章：
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