While receiving a TV Academy Hall of Fame award, Conan O’Brien offered some thoughts about the state of late-night television.

The former late-night host talked to those gathered over the weekend in Los Angeles for the event, where O’Brien noted that there is currently “a lot of fear about the future of television, and rightfully so.”

“The life we’ve all known for almost 80 years is undergoing seismic change,” O’Brien said.

His remarks come after the recent announcement that CBS would be ending “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in May 2026.

While CBS cited financial reasons for the cancellation, there have been questions about the timing of the announcement, which came just before federal regulators approved a sale of Paramount, the parent company of CBS.

During the ceremony, O’Br

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