From 1965 until 1975, NBC affiliates broadcast The Best of Carson reruns of The Tonight Show, originally known as The Saturday/Sunday Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, on Saturday or Sunday nights. In 1… See more

The original 1975 cast of SNL, titled "The Not Ready For Prime-Time Players", a term coined by writer Herb Sargent, included Laraine Newman, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris, an… See more

Since the show's inception, SNL has aired from Studio 8H, located on floors eight and nine of the Comcast Building (formerly the RCA Building and GE Building, now 30 Rockefeller Plaza or "30 Rock"). The studio had original… See more

The show begins at 11:29:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and is scheduled for a 93-minute timeslot ending at 1:02 a.m.
For most of SNL's history, it aired live only to NBC stations in the Eastern and Central Time Zones, … See more