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Colbert's firing sent Late Show audience into nose-dive so bad it's crashing CBS: report
(www.rawstory.com)
Who is surprised? Dumbasses/oligarchs?
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Allen, 65, said from the outset he wasn't chasing Colbert's audience. "At the end of the day, I'm not trying to replace Colbert," he told NPR last month. "I am not trying to hold on to his audience because Comics Unleashed has been around 20 years and has its own audience."
Cool story bro.
I like how the loser replacement guy tries to act like people know who he or his company is
Maybe I'm old, but Byron Allen is pretty well known in comedy circles...
This is me pre-googling this, and I was born in the early 80s: who in the fuck is Byron Allen? Never heard of him.
Ok. Im gonna go plop a Goog on it and answer my own question.
Edit: post-google, who the fuck is Byron Allen?
If you say so... I've heard of a handful of shows/projects he's worked on, but it sounds to me that after decades of grind, THIS is his big break aaand most people aren't happy about it. Not his fault obviously, but definitely a bad career decision if you ask me.
Also, we meet again prole 🤣
I mean, I doubt they care. The plan is just to monopolize them anyway and turn them all into rank propaganda factotries.
Good ol Ministry of Truth.
The classic playbook for authoritarian takeover is to first start with symbols, like Trump's name and face everywhere. Capture institutions by putting loyalists in high places and push out the critics. Get the judges in your pocket. Control the media.
The program is going hard.
That literally all they have been for the last 10 years - democrat propaganda factories.
The value of twitter was never twitter
It’s so crazy. CBS used to be my go to source for broadcast news and I used to associate it with high quality programming.
After this whole fiasco I wouldn’t touch anything associated with them with a 50 foot pole.
Killing any news source that values truth in any way is a goal. So, mission accomplished by the fascists.
They did it to themselves.
You love to see it
Yet it’s a net positive for the network since Colbert lost them a shitload of money:
"With this 'time buy' model, we have shifted an hour that was losing roughly $40 million annually to $15 million in profit — a $55 million swing."
Not the article only compares the viewership numbers from the end of Colberts run too, where more people tuned in since it was ending, not before its cancellation was announced.
Colbert and 60 Minutes.
Surprising nobody. I wonder if doing favors to corruptly ensure the Paramount merger went through will pay off for the mega-corp. Probably.
Guys I haven't had a TV in 6 years. I think you too can save your selves.
The audience numbers crashing is just fine with Trump as well.
Yup, the lot of them are salivating over the way they killed two birds with one stone.
They want to make CBS like his casinos.
He'd rather everyone only spend their time with Fox & Friends
CBS Crap Broadcast System
FAFO
The show is still going? Who is hosting?
No, it's the new programming replacing colbert that has collapsing ratings.
Wait they put someone else on the late show? I had no idea lol
You don't even need to click the article, OP pasted the part explaining this at the top...
Not quite, it's a guy who bought the slot for his own show, same guy you end up seeing super late at night with Comics Unleashed. He's a weird dude.
I think he's somehow super wealthy? Like a billionaire even, maybe?
Real weird.
Yeah, I did a short dive into his whole deal even before this whole situation. I think he's probably just around $1B, because he went from comedian and writer to investor. I mean, he owns part of BuzzFeed, even.
And yeah. It is weird that he's done a fair amount for black causes, but somehow he's willing to put up with CBS? There's always a contradiction when you have money but do things for community. Though I personally just always felt the was off, the same way I felt about Jay Leno.
Ya I stopped watching after they took him off lol
I guess if someone keeps paying for the spot they won’t care, because it will still be profit for them in their eyes.
It's not profit, though.
It was what's called a "loss leader". You lose money on one product so you get back more on another product.
The other word for "loss leader" is "investment". You spend money in one place so you get back more elsewhere.
What CBS did is basically like a grocery store having a cheap and delicious food by the entryway to attract customers and then deciding that they were losing money on it, removing it, and then going "Oh, shit, we don't have any customers anymore! We're not making any money at all."
Good luck with that godawful Comics Unleashed show.
Wouldn’t a better comparison be that they stopped selling the delicious food and are now renting out the empty space to someone else? I don’t think they are footing the bill for the new show unless I missed that part?
No-risk profit to be exact.
This is more like all risk.
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