David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants Teams With NBCUniversal and Merzigo for Expanded Streaming Distribution of Vintage Late-Night Episodes

David Letterman’s long tenure in late-night is about to get a global boost as his Worldwide Pants teams with NBCUniversal and Merzigo to expand distribution of more than 6,000 episodes on YouTube, Facebook and other platforms around the world. The deal calls for tech Merzigo to optimize Letterman’s archive of late-night variety shows, starting in […]

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According to Variety’s source item, David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants Teams With NBCUniversal and Merzigo for Expanded Streaming Distribution of Vintage Late-Night Episodes, David Letterman’s long tenure in late-night is about to get a global boost as his Worldwide Pants teams with NBCUniversal and Merzigo to expand distribution of more than 6,000 episodes on YouTube, Facebook and other platforms around the world. The deal calls for tech Merzigo to optimize Letterman’s archive of late-night variety shows, starting in […]

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