There’s been an across-the-board decline in advertisement spending nationally. A lot of media is effectively operating as a loss-leader for the tech sector, which is why you see so many dogshit Op-Eds and bizarre headline beats pumping MAG7 and their affiliates in the face of huge economic headwinds.
What they did do earlier was decide not to fill the post-Colbert slot when their previous show ended, signalling a general move away from late-night.
There’s some speculation that they purchased South Park with the intention of filling the Late Night slot with a much cheaper form of animated comedy. In some sense, its two-birds and one-stone. Get rid of an expensive live action comedy performance to appease the dictator’s FCC Chairman. Then line up a show so far over-the-top critical of Trump that you can’t reasonably be accused of pro-Trump bias, but that doesn’t go live until after the mid-terms.
Play both ends against the middle. Then slop-ify your network with AI generated Skydance action movies for the MAGA folks and discount dipshit fart-comedy for the apathetic liberals.
The problem with that is that South Park could never be played on CBS. South Park has always been a cable or streaming show, letting it get away with things that you can’t do on broadcast television. Also, South Park doesn’t make nearly as many episodes to fill a late night slot. It fills an anti-Trump role, but it doesn’t fill the time slot.
It seems like CBS didn’t want to entertain paring down The Late Show like how TBS pared down Conan.
There’s been an across-the-board decline in advertisement spending nationally. A lot of media is effectively operating as a loss-leader for the tech sector, which is why you see so many dogshit Op-Eds and bizarre headline beats pumping MAG7 and their affiliates in the face of huge economic headwinds.
There’s some speculation that they purchased South Park with the intention of filling the Late Night slot with a much cheaper form of animated comedy. In some sense, its two-birds and one-stone. Get rid of an expensive live action comedy performance to appease the dictator’s FCC Chairman. Then line up a show so far over-the-top critical of Trump that you can’t reasonably be accused of pro-Trump bias, but that doesn’t go live until after the mid-terms.
Play both ends against the middle. Then slop-ify your network with AI generated Skydance action movies for the MAGA folks and discount dipshit fart-comedy for the apathetic liberals.
Still trying to figure out if this is a Matt Stone pun…
The problem with that is that South Park could never be played on CBS. South Park has always been a cable or streaming show, letting it get away with things that you can’t do on broadcast television. Also, South Park doesn’t make nearly as many episodes to fill a late night slot. It fills an anti-Trump role, but it doesn’t fill the time slot.
It seems like CBS didn’t want to entertain paring down The Late Show like how TBS pared down Conan.