NBC Sports chief Dick Ebersol took an uncharacteristic and very public shot at fellow Litchfield County resident Conan O'Brien in THIS ARTICLE in the New York Times.
He called jokes made by O'Brien and CBS late show host and another Connecticut resident, David Leterman, have made about Leno as "chickenhearted and gutless" seeing that neither were able to beat Leno consistently in the ratings in the 11:30 p.m. time slot.
Ebersol said the reason NBC is looking to end its 10 p.m. Leno experiment and move him back into his old time slot, displacing O'Brien, is that O'Brien has been "an astounding failure" with the Tonight Show.