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November 17, 2007

Writer's strike takes musicians off the air...

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According to listings sent out by “Late Show With David Letterman” prior to the Writers Guild of America strike, acts scheduled to perform on the show in the last couple of weeks included Paul Anka, Trisha Yearwood, Common, Alicia Keys, Carrie Underwood and Jimmy Eat World.

Among the many other appearances that didn’t happen as planned were the Hives’ gig on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” Shaggy’s on “The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” and appearances by Little Big Town, Band of Horses, Motion City Soundtrack and the Plain White T’s on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien.”

Representatives for “Today,” “Good Morning America” and “Live With Regis and Kelly,” which are not in reruns, said their musical guests were performing as scheduled.

For top-tier acts, late-night talk show bookings are not generally thought to produce music sales spikes on the scale of daytime TV, the big exception being “Saturday Night Live.” Amy Winehouse and Kid Rock lost gigs on the show.