The FCC chairman just threatened to pull ABC’s license because of a comment Jimmy Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk, and ABC just indefinitely took him off the air. This is the sort of thing you’d expect in Russia, not America.But let’s back up a minute.First, those who use violence come for the politi...
The only reason I think this isn’t a possibility is because of the money and legality.
The companies that take the ad money wouldn’t turn it down.
Any company who refuses to air said ads would be sued. Not the administration, but the companies themselves. Into oblivion. They wouldn’t risk that.
The majority of political ad spending was all online in the past 4 cycles anyway. That’s just where the eyeballs are at. Put enough ads that say “This is how you stop Trump”, and it’s a done deal hopefully.
You can’t tell me Kimmel and Colbert weren’t making money.
Actually, it’s been quite well documented that the laye night shows are not the profit engine they used to be, and Colbert’s show might have been legit losing money. Its hard to find hard data on this, particularly after it all got so politicized. But I did find this, which shows that late night ad revenue is much lower than it has been 10 years ago
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/28/late-night-tv-corden-ratings-decline
People simply aren’t as likely to wait and watch a thing live when you can always stream it after the fact
Kimmel and Colbert the hosts were. The shows were barely breaking even. Do you know a lot of people who watch late night shows? I don’t.
The old TV networks (ABC, CBS) aren’t being bought by vultures because they’re super successful…
Here’s a Paramount exec complaining how little YouTube pays, because that’s where a lot of views come from.
I watch them on YouTube. As I’ve said, we don’t have a TV in the house. In addition, we don’t do ads.
Colbert’s more my humor, not Kimmel, but it’s fun. Some of the last network tv worth watching. Like pulling up SNL weekend update every week, in season.
Off of political ads?
If you tried to sue a private company for not running your ads, you’d save more time just lighting your money on fire.
https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/political_programming_fact_sheet.pdf
That’s only for broadcast television and radio.
What are you responding to? That’s exactly what we’re talking about.
No, broadcast television was never specified by you or anyone else in this comment chain.
The FCC has purview of ONLY broadcast entities. Not cable, or internet. Read the original comment.
Your own source discredits that, albeit for forcing cable companies to charge the lowest price for political ads.