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The irony of libs tying Colbert cancellation to recent Trump comments
| Well-lubricated Hell Internal Respiration | 07/18/25 |
| insane corner | 07/18/25 |
| insane corner | 07/18/25 |
| insane corner | 07/18/25 |
| Well-lubricated Hell Internal Respiration | 07/19/25 |
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| mahogany multi-colored party of the first part | 07/18/25 |
| cannon | 07/19/25 |
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Date: July 18th, 2025 6:05 PM Author: Well-lubricated Hell Internal Respiration All this guy has done is shit on Trump for 10 years now.
It's like if ABC cancelled Family Matters, and the media ran all these articles, "ABC suspiciously cancels Family Matters just 1 week after lead character dared to ask 'Did I do that?!'"
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Date: July 18th, 2025 6:14 PM Author: insane corner i agree that it's a mixture of paranoia and "i'm the star of this scene because TRUMP HATES ME!"
but to be fair there is a huge merger pending and the money boys don't give a flying fuck about Stephen Colbert. |
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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:11 PM Author: insane corner reports suggest that CBS was losing $40 million a year on Colbert. lol. if that is even close to true, fuck Colbert, Kimmel, and the lot of them.
https://latenighter.com/news/cbs-reportedly-lost-40-million-on-colberts-late-show-this-year
Sources inside CBS have suddenly become much more forthcoming about the sobering economics of late-night television in 2025—go figure— revealing that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has recently been running at an annual shortfall of $40 million.
If that sounds unthinkable for the #1 rated show at 11:35pm, consider this: as Matt Belloni reports today in Puck, back in 2018, all of late-night television combined generated $438 million in advertising revenue. By 2023, that number had been cut in half, and it has continued to fall.
Given that The Late Show—with its handsomely paid host and a staff of roughly 200 employees—reportedly costs CBS $100 million per year to produce, that $40 million figure becomes easier to understand.
Belloni also reports that CBS executives had been discussing the future of its Late Show franchise for months, and that Colbert’s team was informed around July Fourth that the show was in jeopardy.
As Colbert shared with viewers during Thursday’s cold open, he was informed of the network’s decision decision to cancel the show Wednesday night. According to reporting, CBS had not planned to go public just yet, but Colbert pushed to announce it to his staff Thursday and acknowledge it on air later that evening, rather than risk leaks.
While CBS insists the cancellation was strictly a financial decision—unrelated to Colbert’s antagonistic relationship with Trump, his recent on-air criticism of Paramount’s recent $16 million settlement with the president, and/or the company’s pending sale to Trump ally David Ellison’s Skydance Media—the timing has drawn scrutiny from viewers, the media, and even some lawmakers.
Colbert’s last episode of The Late Show will air in May 2026. An exact date has not yet been announced.
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Date: July 18th, 2025 11:39 PM Author: insane corner Megyn Kelly following up on the claim that Colbert costs $100 million per year and loses $40 million annually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A-fv1SMhKY |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 12:42 AM Author: Well-lubricated Hell Internal Respiration The point of these was always that the show was supposed to prop up the rest of the network.
Not sure that works if you're interviewing Stacy Abrams instead of the star of TRACKER. |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 11:53 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i recall hearing that, for example, Johnny Carson was responsible for 17% of NBC's profits each year.
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NYT:
Johnny Carson is believed to be a profit center unto himself at the broadcasting subsidiary of the RCA Corporation. According to industry analysts “The Tonight Show” is estimated to account for 17 percent, or $23 million, of the pretax profits of the National Broadcasting Company. Last year NBC earned $122.1 million.
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Carson didn't lose $40 million and whine about it.
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Date: July 18th, 2025 11:41 PM Author: mahogany multi-colored party of the first part Colbert seems like a stone cold killer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751982&forum_id=2Reputation#49113599) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 12:09 PM Author: cannon Shitlibs tie everything to Trump, what a surprise. Here was an article from last month saying late night was dying and Kimmel said they would all be gone in less than 10 years
https://screenrant.com/late-night-talk-show-hosts-last-bastion-podcasts-replace-dying-out/ |