Photo via wonggawei's flickr
So much news in the Conan O'Brienosphere today. First off, TMZ reports that while the late night talk show host may not get to keep Triumph & Co. he is getting a $32.5 million payout upon leaving NBC and his Tonight Show hosting desk. He is free to move on to another network, but not until September. And since Conan loves his cast and crew, who have been with him since Day 1, you know he looked out for them during negotiations. Rumor has it they are all getting paid severance by the network, grand totaling their payout at around $40 million.
One caveat, however, is that "any money Conan makes during the remaining contract period with NBC will offset the network's obligation. So, if Fox were to make a deal with Conan and pay him $25 mil during the NBC contract period, Conan would only score $7.5 mil from NBC."
Speaking of Fox, Chicagoist points to a new domain registered by the network (or someone posing as the network). It could be fake, especially since the DNS isn't the same as their other domains — the domain registration info points to Twentieth Century Fox, however.
And after the jump you'll find some video of yesterday's NYC "Save Conan" rally outside of 30 Rock.
