KVOA began airing NBC's long-running "Tonight Show" sometime in 1960 or 1961; for the remainder of Jack Paar's tenure on the show and for the first few years of Johnny Carson's tenure on the show, KVOA only joined the show's East Coast feed for 45 minutes, thus, for the latter, the station did not air his monologue and pre-interview sketches until the station expanded its late-night newscast to 30 minutes during the 1970–71 season and established a satellite link with NBC's Phoenix affiliate KTAR-TV (now KPNX). KVOA appeared to have shown "The Tonight Show" in its entirety by 1975 and is still doing so today.