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===High-definition broadcasts===
The show began broadcasting in [[high-definition television]] (HDTV) on August 29, 2005.<ref>{{cite web |title= Monday, August 29, 2005 |url=http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show/the_wahoo_gazette/?year=2005&month=8&day=29&direct=true |date=August 29, 2005 |website=The Late Show Wahoo Gazette |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=April 23, 2015 |quote=The High-Definition, Wide-Screen broadcasting of the Late Show is exciting for everyone, especially those equipped with the High-Definition, Wide-Screen TV sets.}}</ref> About two weeks later, Tim Kennedy, the show's Technical Director, commented on the transition in the show's official newsletter:

{{Blockquote|The biggest challenge in the HD conversion was to renovate and upgrade our old control room, audio room, videotape room, and edit room while still doing five shows a week. ... This entailed putting a remote [[production truck]] on 53rd Street running somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 feet of video and audio cable just to tie the truck to the existing technical plant ...

The coolest piece of equipment is our new control room Virtual Wall. We have done away with the conventional monitor for every video source and replaced it with four 70-inch [[rear projection screen]]s and within those screens we can "virtually" place as many video images as we want, anywhere we want them, and when we want it.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}}}

Kennedy and his crew won an [[Emmy Award]] for "Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video for a Series" during the nearly four-month-long transition to HDTV.