Ep 51.1: Nick Bernstein (Senior Vice President, Late Night Programming (West Coast), ViacomCBS)

Nick Bernstein is the Senior Vice President of Late Night
Programming (West Coast) at ViacomCBS & is the executive in
charge of the Late Late Show with James Corden. 





In Part 1 of this episode with Nick, we explore what it was like
growing up in Maryland and how he would spend 4 hours every
Sunday morning charting America’s Top 40 biggest hits on radio,
the impact that Camp Taconic had & continues to have in his
life, and how he ended up being an NBC page and working with
legendary late night television executive, Rick Ludwin.





Highlights:


7:04: Why summer camps were & continue to be so important
to Nick

15:13: Majoring in broadcast journalism at Syracuse
University

19:28: How Nick became a NBC page 

24:39: How Nick ended up working for Rick Ludwin, who’s
worked with every The Tonight Show host from Steve Allen to Jimmy
Fallon

30:28: What makes a good host

33:11: Why Rick was a “man of conviction” who stood behind
hosts like Conan O’Brien when no one else would

39:05: Believing that Conan O’Brien & Jimmy Fallon were
the future of late night back in 2002

42:41: Replacing late night hosts

48:41: The Conan/Jay Leno debacle

56:00: Giving as much runway to shows as possible or… not?






Show notes: www.sothisismywhy.com/51-1 





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