Name: A Salute To Dave's CBS Affiliates | David Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'A Salute To Dave's CBS Affiliates | David Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-24. Transcript available.

let me uh let me tell you a little about something about how uh television
works i don't know much
about show business or show business but i know a little bit about how
television works and what
television is is uh when you have a television network what that is it's a
family and uh we here
in new york and the folks at cbs in california we are like the parents of the
family and making up
the the children of the family and perhaps aunts and uncles as well siblings
too uh would be all
of the cbs affiliates all across the north america this makes up our wonderful
family
and it's a nurturing supportive system that keeps us going night after night
after night because
honestly without the great affiliates of the cbs network what would we have
well we would have
nothing ladies and gentlemen we would have nothing you people wouldn't be here
televisions wouldn't
have even been invented that's the importance of the television network they're
our family
and and if we can't count on them and can't rely on them well we might as well
give up because we would
have that's right we would have nothing nothing now by way of introducing this
next segment it's called
cbs affiliate of the night take a look
conan has been offered 30 million to walk away from his nbc contract team conan
yeah i do i'm team
conan i do like jay leno as well but conan's just hilarious we're team letterman
though
actually yeah well i won't say anything that was great that's a cbs affiliate k-o-i-n-t-v
portland
oregon that is that is great yeah that's traffic reporter carla kennelly well
she's
team coco yeah that's right yeah actually yeah well i won't say anything okay
sure no she can can you
feel the love ladies and gentlemen you got it baby i mean is it any wonder i
pound out of bed every
morning with a smile on my face those are our children your children that's
right k-o-i-n
portland oregon god bless you carly thank you very much honey
i just want to make sure i have this quote correct actually yeah well i won't
say anything
i'm glad you folks are in a good mood we got a brand new segment for you we've
never done this
before i don't think never it's called uh cbs affiliates you know the the
network uh is made up
of affiliated to television stations all across north america and that is the
backbone of the cbs
television network without the affiliates what would we just be like a live
theater show every day
right we we'd have nowhere to go we broadcast you folks would just come in here
and sleep yeah
and many nights that's happened
so thank god for the cbs affiliates and that's the segment tonight cbs affiliates
do's and don'ts here
i hope you enjoy it
thanks so much for joining us tonight stay tuned for the late show with david
letterman
right after this newscast you'll see an old face in a familiar place jay leno
that's exactly what i'm talking about which brings me to my next topic which is
um cbs affiliate of
the night you know you've been on tv for 17 years and no 29 years how long we've
been on 17 years well
and it's 17 years here yeah 12 years over exactly what's that yeah 29 yeah you
think people no no no no
here
you think you make a dent you don't make a dent nobody knows nobody cares watch
this cbs affiliate of the
and keep it right here for the best news weather and traffic of the morning
with cbs 2 news at 5
and 6 a.m and who's coming up next david letterman right yeah oh hey somebody
somebody somebody we've done over 3 000 shows here at cbs ladies and gentlemen
this is great we don't
often do this we have some exciting news to report to you here at the late show
and now to fill everybody
in on this wonderful development please welcome our announcer alan calter alan
thank you dave we are very proud to welcome a new affiliate to the late show
family wizj tv in
appleton wisconsin you know here at cbs we've had our eye on you for a while
and we're proud to bring
you into the fold wizj formerly channel 38 but now channel 39 since the digital
switchover is formerly an
independent television station owned by carlson cable sister stations include kqve
w ejs and kqax wizj also has a transmitter power of 135 kilowatts at a height
of 390 meters whoa
that's a lot of juice and a special h welcome to the wizj news at 9 news team
anchor gus carmichael
weatherman chip sinclair and buzz burton on sports hey buzz love your hilarious
buzz burton big time buzzer
beat me up to the 890 meters segment all of the affiliates here wait a minute
oh wait hey wait wow
you'll be that was frightening i'm being told he's all right that was he's all
right that was scary
you're being told honestly he came this close to hitting him wow