I look forward to see what hell Colbert raises now that he is free of Paramont...
I always liked him better than Gutfeld, Colbert used 10 minutes to make fun of stupid things said and done by politicians. Where as Gutfeld works to promote conspiracy theories and paint people as evil. I am not sure who finds Gutfeld funny... Maybe the same folks who like to pick on the slow kid in school. 
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I have long been a Colbert fan going back to his old show and before. I just about always caught his nightly monologue. .CBS cites financial reasons for their decision to cancel his show. This is not unreasonable. Late night TV talk shows are not the huge financial power houses they were in the Carson era. The network audiences were many times larger then they are now, and Carson himself had no real competition, either from the other networks, or technologies. The Colbert show, and indeed the other talk shows are scaled for audiences and markets that no longer exist. But although a case can be made that there are financial reasons ending the show., it is pretty clear those aren't the reasons that motivated CBS to end the show.--Hiram
In thinking about business, sometimes we take into account intangibles. Something other then Yankee dollars flowing in and flowing out. Maybe two years ago, Colbert was offered a contract extension through 2028. What was behind that, I don't know, but that won't stop me specuating. Basically, Colbert was losing money, but he was delivering intangibles. Late Night talk gave the network id entity and presitige. For CBS it was the Tiffany part of the Tiffany network. I provide a forum for promotion of network shows. Colbert made the network relevant. All these things represented value. Or did they? Like all broadcast networks, CBS is in decline. Weren't all those reasons I cited for keeping Colbert just exercises in denial of the fundamental fact? The fact is, what happened to Colbert, isn't just happening to Colbert. CBS News has been junked. The radio network, the inheritor of broadcast news greatest legacy, has been terminated. CBS, and to some extent the other networks have been reduced to the barest of essentials, NFL football and the endless police procedurals.--Hiram
Either way, I look forward to seeing him in his next reincarnation. :-)
Apart from the money thing, Colbert fit very well with the current media scene. His show was the highest rated, and the classiest. I am also a fan of Kimmel, but his niche was the important not so classy. Now I get the feeling from late night tv of a three legged stool missing one of its legs.
The question I don't have a good answer for is why did Ellison want CBS? The networks are ever slowly fading away, and Ellison's early moves have done nothing at all to suggest he wants to slow that decline. I have heard that he wants to refashion the network into some high tech behomoth, but why not just start fresh? Why does he want all that legacy baggage? The fact is that these properties have been repeatedly passed around for many years now, and nobody has ever to make anything of them. There is a movie "The Insider", made in the late 90s about CBS news, and the same problems they talked about then, afflict the network today. After more than 25 years, nothing has gotten better.--Hiram
Media Empire?
Maybe there are undervalued assets in there somewhere?
Or it is just part of the facist takeover?
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