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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is the full name of NBC's The Tonight Show hosted by Jay Leno, debuting on May 25, 1992. The show takes over from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, after the retirement of Johnny Carson on May 22, 1992. Under Leno, the show has won four Emmy Awards and another forty-one nominations. The show is taped in Burbank, California, near Los Angeles. On April 26, 1999, the show began broadcasting in 1080i HDTV, becoming the first American nightly talk show to be shot in high definition. The show is shot in 16:9 aspect ratio with a 4:3 center-cut for standard definition television sets. On September 27, 2004, the 50th anniversary of the show's premiere, NBC announced that Jay Leno will be succeeded by Conan O'Brien in 2009. Leno explained that he did not want to see a repeat of the hard feelings and controversy that occurred when he was given the show over David Letterman following Carson's retirement.