Carter is the author of the 1994 best-selling book, 'The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno and the Network Battle for the Night.' He is also the co-author of the 1987 book 'Monday Night Mayhem: The Inside Story of ABC's Monday Night Football.' In 2006, Mr. He has been a guest on many television and radio programs including, 'Nightline,' 'Today,' 'Good Morning America,' 'The Larry King Show,' ESPN Sports Century, and The MSNBC News with Brian Williams. Carter's articles have also appeared in TV Guide, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Newsday, Advertising Age, The Washington Journalism Review and Electronic Media. Carter was assistant foreign editor at The Sun, substituting at times as foreign editor, national editor and news editor. From 1975 until 1989, he was a television critic for The Baltimore Sun, writing four to six columns, reports and features per week, as well as a weekly television sports column. Carter has covered the television industry for over 25 years.

Carter has written numerous articles for The New York Times Magazine, including four cover stories. In addition to his work for the newspaper, Mr. Carter joined The New York Times as a national media reporter in 1989.

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In The War for Late Night, New York Times reporter Bill Carter offers a detailed behind-the-scenes account of the events of the unforgettable 2009/2010 late-night season as all of its players- performers, producers, agents, and network executives-maneuvered to find footing amid the shifting tectonic plates of television culture. What followed was a boisterous, angry, frequently hilarious public battle that had millions of astonished viewers glued to their sets. Conan's collapse, meanwhile, opened an unexpected door of opportunity for rival David Letterman. Leno's show, panned by critics, dragged down the ratings-and the profits-of NBC's affiliates, while ratings for Conan's new Tonight show plummeted to the lowest levels in history. It took, in fact, only a few months for the dire predictions to come true. When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show-a job he had been promised five years earlier-skeptics anticipated a train wreck for the ages. A dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC's calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television.

The war for late night by bill carter