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Tonight moving eastward?

From the Associated Press:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to get a promise from Conan O’Brien on Tuesday to bring the Tonight show back to New York when he takes over as host from Jay Leno in 2009.

“It’s not up to me, I work for the man. If he says ‘yeah,’ we’re fine. So we’ll talk,” O’Brien told Bloomberg, who appeared on his current NBC show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

The Tonight show, with Johnny Carson as its host, moved from Rockefeller Center to Burbank, Calif., in 1972.

NBC announced last fall that O’Brien will succeed Leno.

The implications are profound.