Who is surprised? Dumbasses/oligarchs?
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.”
Cool story bro.
Wait Byron Allen as in that shitty, boring ass talkshow host from like 20 years ago who was only there to awkwardly set up comics to say their pre agreed upon bits from their act? They’re replacing Colbert with that wet sock?
Sucks to suck lol.
I like how the loser replacement guy tries to act like people know who he or his company is
Maybe I’m old, but Byron Allen is pretty well known in comedy circles…
This is me pre-googling this, and I was born in the early 80s: who in the fuck is Byron Allen? Never heard of him.
Ok. Im gonna go plop a Goog on it and answer my own question.
Edit: post-google, who the fuck is Byron Allen?
If you say so… I’ve heard of a handful of shows/projects he’s worked on, but it sounds to me that after decades of grind, THIS is his big break aaand most people aren’t happy about it. Not his fault obviously, but definitely a bad career decision if you ask me.
Also, we meet again prole 🤣
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I mean, I doubt they care. The plan is just to monopolize them anyway and turn them all into rank propaganda factotries.
Good ol Ministry of Truth.
The classic playbook for authoritarian takeover is to first start with symbols, like Trump’s name and face everywhere. Capture institutions by putting loyalists in high places and push out the critics. Get the judges in your pocket. Control the media.
The program is going hard.
The value of twitter was never twitter
That literally all they have been for the last 10 years - democrat propaganda factories.
It’s so crazy. CBS used to be my go to source for broadcast news and I used to associate it with high quality programming.
After this whole fiasco I wouldn’t touch anything associated with them with a 50 foot pole.
Killing any news source that values truth in any way is a goal. So, mission accomplished by the fascists.
They did it to themselves.
You love to see it
Colbert and 60 Minutes.
So they’re not good for comedy or news. So what’s the point anymore?
Right wing propaganda.
Surprising nobody. I wonder if doing favors to corruptly ensure the Paramount merger went through will pay off for the mega-corp. Probably.
Yet it’s a net positive for the network since Colbert lost them a shitload of money:
“With this ‘time buy’ model, we have shifted an hour that was losing roughly $40 million annually to $15 million in profit — a $55 million swing.”
Not the article only compares the viewership numbers from the end of Colberts run too, where more people tuned in since it was ending, not before its cancellation was announced.
Guys I haven’t had a TV in 6 years. I think you too can save your selves.
The audience numbers crashing is just fine with Trump as well.
Yup, the lot of them are salivating over the way they killed two birds with one stone.
They want to make CBS like his casinos.
He’d rather everyone only spend their time with Fox & Friends
CBS Crap Broadcast System
FAFO
