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CBS is ending ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ next year

In the last quarter Colbert had higher ratings than kimmel and fallon. Looking forward to seeing Kimmel cry again on air. Learn to code, boys.

Taylor said:
Hopefully Kimmel will be next. Should have been first.
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TobyOne said:
In the last quarter Colbert had higher ratings than kimmel and fallon. Looking forward to seeing Kimmel cry again on air. Learn to code, boys.
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They don’t have to.

They are already very wealthy.

A couple of hundred people do lose their job in May though.

It happens all the time in the TV world because everyone is a freelancer… but some people, like my friend, has been working with Colbert for 20 years now.
 
Lursa said:
This is actually funny. The "deal" is to ensure the sale goes to an owner that will agree to/comply with TACO's agenda.
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Not really. Nothing Ellison's stated indicates that's his intention with this deal, especially since he first expressed interest in it last year.

Lursa said:
Yes to the "mouthpiece" comment...but he's ensuring he can use it as he pleases.
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Similar to my comment above, nothing indicates that's the intention. The perceived threat by Paramount was more centered around the government meddling with the deal. Of course Trump most certainly wants a compliant media, but there are different ways to accomplish that goal than approving ownership of mergers. The choice method seems to be lawsuits.

Lursa said:
Still will have to disagree.
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Fair enough.
:)


Lursa said:
IMO they connected the dots very clearly and are not separate...they're different actions under the same agenda.
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They made an argument, and one with which I partially agree, I just don't think it's the sole motivation.
 
The Late Show market has been dwindling for years as people's choices on what to watch has changed.
If Colbert was being fired due to purely political reasons why is CBS waiting 10 months?
 
The people who say Colbert is being cancelled for political reasons are the same people who want people cancelled because of political reasons.

mike2810 said:
The Late Show market has been dwindling for years as people's choices on what to watch has changed.
If Colbert was being fired due to purely political reasons why is CBS waiting 10 months?
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Remember that time maga got mad because they thought Biden was censoring them on twitter..
 
ElChupacabra said:
Not really. Nothing Ellison's stated indicates that's his intention with this deal, especially since he first expressed interest in it last year.
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And you expect that? :oops:

ElChupacabra said:
Similar to my comment above, nothing indicates that's the intention. The perceived threat by Paramount was more centered around the government meddling with the deal. Of course Trump most certainly wants a compliant media, but there are different ways to accomplish that goal than approving ownership of mergers. The choice method seems to be lawsuits.
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See above.

ElChupacabra said:
Fair enough.
:)

They made an argument, and one with which I partially agree, I just don't think it's the sole motivation.
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IMO, not sole, but primary. Long-term intentional fulfillment of strategy. It's not a new strategy.
 
mike2810 said:
The Late Show market has been dwindling for years as people's choices on what to watch has changed.
If Colbert was being fired due to purely political reasons why is CBS waiting 10 months?
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There's nothing to replace Colbert and there no money for it. The Late Show is done and over with kaput next May. CBS announcing the cancellation now for May goes on the record with Trump that Colbert is persona non grata at the network that anyway is being sold to the Trump oligarch billionaire autocrat David Ellison. CBS does not want to hold off canceling Colbert till next year because it might give Trump and Ellison the unwanted impression CBS likes Colbert and has always liked him. Neither do CBS investors want to mess up the big bucks capital gains from the big bucks sale. Indeed, CBS investors know self respect and professional integrity are roads that intersect at the Poorhouse.
 
Lursa said:
And you expect that? :oops:
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Not sure yet. Not all Trump supporters at that level are MAGA nutters. Ellison's comments thus far lean in the "varying ideological perspectives", at least that's what he's said to Brendan Carr at the FCC. We've had other media outlets try this approach (CNN) even without MAGA supporting leadership.

Lursa said:
IMO, not sole, but primary. Long-term intentional fulfillment of strategy. It's not a new strategy.
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Maybe. How far they push it remains to be seen.
 
Slartibartfast said:
@Checkerboard Strangler, being an engineer in that space, had good info on when companies need broadcast licenses. Given what I know now, I don't think my original suspicion was correct.
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I think all broadcasters should call Trump's bluff, even the individual stations, affiliates AND the network owned stations.
Call his bluff, say "Go ahead, yank every TV license in the entire country, shut down every transmitter, watch what happens."

The thing to remember about Trump, and it seems, a lot of his best and brightest, is that they're actually pretty dumb.
The list of FUBAR'd conference and appearances, even rallies, is quite long, among which one might remember the Four Seasons press conference, which was supposed to be at The Four Seasons HOTEL but thanks to Trump's buddy Rudy Giuliani, ended up taking place at Four Seasons LANDSCAPING, right next door to an adult bookstore.
Oh what I wouldn't have given if the bookstore owner had released a hundred inflatable sex dolls.

I don't think key people in Trump's orbit realize the difference between "the public airwaves" and leased private commercial use of the electromagnetic spectrum, whether wired or not.
And if some of his peeps do, it's clear that they are reluctant to let him know because they probably have guessed imparting such information would set off a massive ketchup fest and would backfire on them personally, so they're steering clear and keeping mum. If you can't tell him tariffs get paid by consumers, you obviously can't tell him the FCC has no legal jurisdiction over a content provider.

This is not to say that networks, cable, satellite and streaming are a hundred percent unregulated, just that it's not the FCC's wheelhouse.
Back in the Eighties and Nineties there was a bunch of court cases over "community standards" that regulated when adult content could be shown, and a few other items, and it IS the courts that have jurisdiction over regulating content providers.

But that's not a license, it's a legal ruling about a specific case or a set of legal rulings about a set of cases."
And those rulings are limited in scope because again, these outlets operate on private leased spectrum space and over privately leased wireline networks.
None of them originate content over the public airwaves, the individual TV stations use their content over the public airwaves, which again now serve a minor handful of viewers these days.
In another ten years the public airwaves as we know them for broadcast might not even exist. They will be obsolete.
Once penetration for broadband reaches 95 percent there won't be a need for public airwaves for TV broadcasting anymore.
And I guarantee you if that happens for broadband, cable will be sure to follow.
That leaves satellite which theoretically covers everywhere if YOU CAN AFFORD it.

I really do think all the major networks should publicly DARE him to do it.
And they should make it a TedTalk civics lesson when they do, so that the public gets educated ABOUT the public airwaves and the FCC's role in regulating them.
 
TobyOne said:
The people who say Colbert is being cancelled for political reasons are the same people who want people cancelled because of political reasons.
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Lies.
 
Allan said:
Normally this would be simply entertainment news but this comes after Colbert made a series of jokes about his employer settling a lawsuit brought on by Trump.



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Stephen Colbert used to be hilarious when he was on Comedy Central, but he stopped being funny ages ago.

Interestingly enough, the decline in the quality of his humor happened around the time he decided to quit being an equal opportunity offender and become a partisan hack and fellater of Democrat politicians and commentators.

Mark
 
I'm guessing Gutfeld will get a few more scalps in the next year or so. Daily show and Kimmel are very vulnerable.
 
TobyOne said:
I'm guessing Gutfeld will get a few more scalps in the next year or so. Daily show and Kimmel are very vulnerable.
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If so, that's because of right-wing owners.
 
markdc said:
Stephen Colbert used to be hilarious when he was on Comedy Central, but he stopped being funny ages ago.

Interestingly enough, the decline in the quality of his humor happened around the time he decided to quit being an equal opportunity offender and become a partisan hack and fellater of Democrat politicians and commentators.

Mark
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He makes fun of Democrats all the time. Another right winger talking shit about a show they don't watch, because god forbid you hear someone talk bad about Dear Leader.
 
TobyOne said:
The people who say Colbert is being cancelled for political reasons are the same people who want people cancelled because of political reasons.
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I’m a moderate. And I never supported canceling anyone, and Colbert, by all indications, is being cancelled for political reasons.

What’s happening right now, everything Trump is doing, is intended to destroy our democracy and replace it with a form of government that is more autocratic in nature.

We should all oppose this, we should all want to prevent this from happening. And if someone supports such a thing it’s appropriate for others to call them a fascist and someone who does not believe in traditional American values of a free press and free speech. And they should be excluded from American politics.

Nothing that’s happening right now is okay. The American people need to fight back and tell fascists to STFU and sit down.
 
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