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    Colberts Entlassung versetzte das Publikum der Late Show in einen so heftigen Sturzflug, dass es zum Absturz kam. CBS: Bericht

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    4. kahner on

      „Comics Unleashed has been around 20 years and has its own audience“

      i’ve never heard of it once in those 20 years.

    5. krichard-21 on

      Repercussions? Shocked face…

      😁 🤪 😁 🤪 😁 🤪 😁 🤪 😁

    9. phoenix823 on

      I love comedy. Low brow, high brow, fart jokes, shaggy dog stories, puns, insult humor, roasts, you name it. I watched 15 minutes of „Comics Unleashed“ and it just wasn’t comedy. It’s a talk show that cosplays as a comedy show, but doesn’t actually do any comedy. It is just uniquely unfunny AND unentertaining. Of course, they’re racing CBS News to see which can circle the drain fastest.

    12. Amish_Juggalo469 on

      Sounds like Steven Colbert needs a back massage for holding up cbs for so long.

    14. PREMIUM_POKEBALL on

      It doesn’t matter, they said. They said they sold the time-slot like paid advertisement. 

      Either they REALLY REALLY CARE internally about the drop or folks are still mad about his cancellation to keep reporting on it. (I assume it’s both)

    16. CuteComplaint5542 on

      I’m pretty sure striking Convey
      Colbert down, to quote an old Jedi, will only make him more powerful than they could have imagined. 

      Think about it: now he’s not beholden to CBS, or that jerkass Carr. Now he’s free to go on the internet and continue doing what he did before, with far less constraints. 

      This administration – actually, MAGA in general – has a really, really bad problem with failing to think things through.

    18. samydees on

      Eat shit CBS. You fired thousands of the best and hardest working most intelligent people in the entertainment industry.

    19. turb0_encapsulator on

      The goal of CBS isn’t to make money. It’s to help Donald Trump and the Republican Party so that Larry Ellison can get more government contracts and preferential treatment.

    20. Sad_Difficulty226 on

      I’m absolutely shocked that Byron Allen’s replacement show even kept 1/3 of Steven Colbert’s show.

    21. TheUnderCrab on

      CBS turning 60 Minutes into a propaganda outlet is another huge factor. They killed their two flagship programs, no shit viewership is going to plummet. 

      But that was the goal, let’s be real. Trump wants to kill CBS and make it into his state sponsored media channel. 

    22. AnswerGuy301 on

      Byron Allen is paying CBS for the slot so the ratings don’t really matter. It’s basically the same as punting the time slot and airing an infomercial. That doesn’t sound sustainable to me but I’m not a billionaire.

    24. Silly-Pitch-2565 on

      Well i mean the network was taken over by criminals. This result is not surprising. 

    27. chemicalreaction52 on

      Saying: “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.“

      So CBS traded 66% for 33%. Sounds like a political decision more than economics. Bravo CBS!!

    28. myfrigginagates on

      „I am not trying to hold on to his audience because Comics Unleashed has been around 20 years“ Byron Allen.

      Yeah, all five of them.

    29. not_productive1 on

      I don’t think they know the half of it. I’ve been done with Paramount other than Colbert since the sale, so I didn’t have much to drop. I am, however, BIG into the Warner/HBO stuff, and I will drop all that shit when this merger is approved (even though I love it and this sucks). I don’t think I’m alone in that.

    31. DevoidHT on

      It was never about the ratings. It was always about getting the merger deal secured. Monopolies are back in full force and billionaires own all the major media organizations. They are turning all that cash into soft power propaganda.

    33. Huge_Lime826 on

      I used to religiously watch Colbert and 60 Minutes. Stopped watching both since the CBS regime has bowed to the Trump censorship.

    34. TheFoxAndTheRaven on

      I’ve blocked CBS at home and won’t subscribe to Paramount. It’s not hard to just not watch them.

    35. WorldBelongsToUs on

      But but his ratings were terrible and he was costing them like 10 billion hundred million thousand and a half a year!

    36. Alarmed_Stretch_1780 on

      Very much a non-story.

      For now, the network won’t care because it gets paid no matter how small the audience. Byron Allen sells and keeps 100% of the ad revenue in the deal. The O&O stations will show Comics Unleashed M-F without question, and those stations cover maybe 35% of the national television audience.

      That means the station ownership groups—Nexstar, TEGNA, Sinclair, etc—cover the remaining 65%. As those stations see no halo effect with their late-night news programming, they will start to slot reruns of Friends, Big Bang, Seinfeld, whatever they have which has a chance to draw a bigger audience. As the Comics Unleashed advertisers learn that more and more affiliate stations are bumping the show back 30 to 60 minutes later, they’ll pay less for the ads. If the process spirals, Allen will pay CBS less to buy that hour next year, and what was a $15M payday is significantly less the next year.

      Parenthetically, nobody who works in the late night shows believes that CBS was losing $40M annually on Colbert, which was the highest-rated network late-night show for the last several years. It s possible the show wasn’t net profitable, and certainly the long-range prospects for the daypart were not encouraging. But Late Show also helped draw an audience to the late night news shows of the CBS affiliate and O&O stations which ran before it. Those stations typically make a healthy profit off a successful late news half hour.

      The “$40M loss” quote is apparently going to be repeated until it’s widely accepted as fact. When the O&O stations see their 11pm ratings drop, then the alleged swing of “$55M” quoted in the story could quickly become a net negative for CBS by 2028.

    37. AdLogical5805 on

      Since the Ellison’s are Trump loving billionaires , they won’t care.

    38. Weird-Passage155 on

      Is anyone here surprised? Publicly fire your most popular host, and then throw a bunch of chaos into your weekly newsmagazine show and this is what you get

    39. AJfriedRICE on

      Unless it’s news, I’ve never cared what network a show that I’m watching is on. In the past month or 2 I’ve actively avoided anything on CBS. Fuck em

    40. spcbeck on

      You mean Colbert’s audience somehow didn’t translate into super fans of Byron Allen’s Chuckle Hut Hour???

    41. bixl1974 on

      Ellison doesn’t care about that. It’s about controlling the flow of information and opposing opinions. That’s why he went after 60 minutes.

    42. happyscrappy on

      There’s not really much information here. The headline is misleading, it’s not crashing CBS, just that time slot.

      An expert on TV talks about how this will hurt late night by removing its lead-out programming. This is just something we will have to find out. With shows being broken up into separate playlists by DVRs now it’s not clear lead-outs (or lead-ins) do anything anymore. CBS is gambling they don’t.

      The idea that lead-outs pay off for local news is why networks paid more for late night shows than they directly cost to produce. It’s why the Late Show could cost that much even though it had low ratings (but highest of all late night shows).

      We are going to find out from all this if lead-outs really were working for late-night news. If they weren’t, then the Jimmys will probably lose their shows too or will have to reconfigure to cost less to make their shows.

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