I suspect that the end will come when my generation is gone, if not sooner. Younger people don’t have the fidelity to it that the Boomers do. When I’m traveling, I realize how spoiled I am by DVR. “You mean I have to actually be in my room at 7 PM to watch Gutfeld?”
“Lawmakers should investigate whether the end of The Late Show was part of, as Colbert called Paramount’s payout to Trump over a frivolous 60 Minutes lawsuit, “a big fat bribe.”
Comments like this tainted this essay, though the points raised on the Industry are good.
Not a mention of the massive millions “The Late Show”loses each year
I didn’t have to read more than his labored reference to the dominance of Joe Rogan’s podcast, which he described while carefully avoiding mention of Rogan’s name, and his snarky observation of the size of the Gutfeld! audience (double that of Colber’s, though it may consist of people who fell asleep during Laura Ingraham’s show – which doesn’t precede Gutfeld!) to know what a leftist hack he is. As such, he completely missed the reason why mainstream late night is bombing. Half of the country doesn’t consider preachy screeds directly calling them white supremacist racists an entertaining monologue. So Colbert’s show, which costs $100 million a year to put on, and loses $40 to $50 million due to lack of advertising revenue, didn’t fail for economic reasons, but for Orange Man Bad reasons. Now, I’ve known that broadcast TV as I knew it my whole life was dead for a very long time. But guess what. There’s a streaming channel that contradicts one of this guy’s assertions: The Johnny Carson Channel, which broadcasts reruns of Carson’s shows. They’re still immensely entertaining. If late night went back to being entertaining, it might survive longer. But as long as it is just a Democrat propaganda tool, it will never make any money, and will die a natural business death.
So nary a peep from anyone about the revelations from the Tulsi Gabbard press conference? No comments about the information drop that the Obama administration (orchestrated by Obama personally) basically created the Russian collusion hoax mostly out of whole cloth in an attempt to either shift the election Hillary Clinton’s way or failing that crippled the Trump administration. Also that Hillary Clinton herself is/was apparently a mental and physical basket case ill-suited for the White House we certainly dodged a bullet there.