New CBS Head Honcho beschuldigte YouTube gerade für die Absage der Late Show

I mean.. he’s correct. I haven’t watched the actual show in years. Normally just the monologue and bits I want to watch.

Problem is that they should be able to leverage their viewership.

Conan saw the writing on the wall and set up his own platform with sponsorships, etc.

All time high viewership, sponsors pay out the wazoo, yet it comes up short because YouTube doesn’t compensate you enough for the show you broadcast for free, over the air?

„…Totally not a political decision by a major Trump donor… „

Hey CBS honcho…it’s called “commercials”

No one has time for them or watches them anymore. Hence he go to YT for fast content

Want to keep your golden toilet? Maybe earn that paycheck and use that brain to come up with a better money making method instead of crying about YouTube

Honestly this is what I thought before the news came out that it was cancelled for the merger. Colbert does 4 hourlong shows a week, he can be extremely funny outside of this show but on it a lot of his bits fell flat, and he doesn’t have that „family show warmth“ that Fallon or Kimmel have. So what happens is his interviews do really well on Youtube but the old people that actually watch these late night shows are watching Jimmy Fallon. The political nerds who like late night political shows are watching the Daily Show or John Oliver or Seth Meyers. And yet somehow the ratings were at an alltime high. Makes me wonder if those numbers were wrong. Or it’s probably this CBS guy is lying to make the situation look less bad.

Captain Midnight made a really good video essay about [this.](https://youtu.be/BKCAXQTQSMk?si=v1Qj8GjFt6rWL_bq) Yes, there’s a sea shift happening in terms of how late night shows are consumed but the answer is to adapt, not to cancel. The decision to cancel Colbert’s show might be completely defendable with a number of different arguments, but no matter how much the decision makers try to justify their decision, we can all still the real, very obvious, political reason.

The emperor has no clothes on, guys. Can’t distract from that by talking about threadcount.

I would have probably watched late night tv in the 2000s but I’m not watching it now, the format is dead.

Then why not move him to be a Paramount+ exclusive program instead of just cancelling the show outright? Add reruns of the P+ shows to CBS after a few weeks and limit the YouTube content by not posting so much of the show. I mean, I’m not looking at the numbers, but it feels like the number one late night show shouldn’t just poof at the end of its contract.

Well, doesn’t CBS have a say so/rights in whether YouTube can broadcast the video? Isn’t YouTube paying them? CBS is part of the problem. Last, what company wouldn’t have fired this guy by now for mismanaging this division?
By the way, enjoy reruns of Tracker or Big Brother rerun late night.

I hate Trump but cable talk shows have been dead for a while. It’s inevitable the way they currently exist was going to end cancellation or not. Colbert going serious full time never really worked tbh