The Tonight Show has been NBC's flagship late night program since 1954, and Jay Leno hosted from 1992 to 2009 and again from 2010 to 2014. During his era the closing used a split credits format, with the theme playing while the screen shared space for what came next, usually the local NBC news. That short arrangement became familiar to nightly viewers in the United States. Online, the clip survives as a nostalgic reference to 1990s and 2000s television and is reused whenever creators want an authentic broadcast ending.