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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Don't pity Jay Leno.

The host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" is losing his home of 17 years in 2009, but Leno finds himself in an enviable position. Still packing the ratings punch that delivers the lion's share of NBC's estimated $300 million in annual late-night revenue, the 58-year-old comic is being wooed by a host of suitors. ABC, Fox, Sony and even CNN have been reported trying to lure Leno, and he won't come cheap: NBC pays him $27 million per year.

Little did the Peacock know back in 2004 when then-NBC Universal TV president Jeff Zucker guaranteed Conan O'Brien that he would take Leno's job five years later that the succession would turn late-night on its ear.

It's a situation unthinkable back in the 1992-93 season, when an earlier round of late-night wars deposited Leno in Johnny Carson's chair instead of David Letterman, whose "Late Show" on CBS has trailed the "Tonight" audience.

With Leno's future fast becoming the industry's favorite guessing game, The Hollywood Reporter weighs his options (in descending order of likelihood) and forecasts how each would impact late-night.

And we won't even take a percentage.

Option 1: Leno takes ABC's 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. time slot occupied by "Nightline" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

ABC is Leno's most likely destination. He could compete directly with Letterman and O'Brien with a solid network promotional platform behind him.

Ronu Majumdar

Artist: Ronu Majumdar

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Mysticism On Woodwinds

Year:
Tracks: 3

Lady Astride The Tiger

Year:
Tracks: 4

Cock and Ball Torture

Artist: Cock and Ball Torture

   Genre(s):
Rock: Grindcore
   Rock
   Metal
   Metal: Death,Black

Discography:

Egoleech

Year: 2004
Tracks: 13

Where Girls Learn to Piss on Command

Year: 2002
Tracks: 6

Libido Airbag - Zoophilia- Rosebud Rhapsody

Year: 2002
Tracks: 7

Sadochismo

Year: 2001
Tracks: 15

Opus(Sy) Vi

Year: 2000
Tracks: 21

Cocktales

Year: 1997
Tracks: 16

Reid, Sharp, Torn

Artist: Reid, Sharp, Torn

   Genre(s):
Jazz

Discography:

Gtr Oblq

Year: 2002
Tracks: 7

Kiss and Tell: Rock Legend Gene Simmons

Andrew Vasquez

Artist: Andrew Vasquez

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Togo

Year: 2004
Tracks: 11

An American Indian

Year: 1999
Tracks: 9

Wind River

Year: 1997
Tracks: 12

Vasquez

Year: 1996
Tracks: 10

Mo Boma

Artist: Mo Boma

   Genre(s):
Ethnic

Discography:

Myths Of The Near Future,Vol.2

Year: 1996
Tracks: 12

The duo known as Mo Boma (named subsequently a pygmy girl's lullaby), is comprised of Carsten Tiedemann, a native of Germany, and Skuli Sverrisson, of Iceland, both of whom attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. Tiedemann's studies in classical composition structures and cultural medicine traditions feature prominently in Mo Boma's mode, which uses electronic music to create a airy, multi-textured sound that builds around Sverrisson's electric bass core. Sverrisson's own see as a jazz bassist and improvisational player besides makes a major wallop on Mo Boma's sound. The salmagundi of organic and electronic instrumentation help Mo Boma acheive a depth and complextity of composition that is slightly rare in ethno-ambient music. Their debut album, Jijimuge, was issued in 1992, merely possibly the best model of their unparalleled sound is their 1996 album, Myths of the Near Future, Vol. 1, which was vaguely elysian by the workings of J.G. Ballard. It weaves percussive sections some a sedate, shimmering swirl, anchored perpetually by Sverrisson's bass. Mo Boma issued two more than volumes of the Myths of the Near Future series in the mid-'90s, each featuring similar sounds, but playing tribute to their have unique themes.

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