Conan O’Brien Says Late Night TV is Dying, but Stephen Colbert Is ‘Too Talented and Too Essential to Go Away’
Conan O’Brien Says Late Night TV is Dying, but Stephen Colbert Is ‘Too Talented and Too Essential to Go Away’
Broadcast TV in general is dying. It has been for several years now.
I mean really ask yourself, what are the highest rated shows right now and what are they being watched on?
Entertainment is not a zero sum game. Broadcast audience measurement. While not the largest portion of viewers, broadcast does serve a large group of Americans every day.
The affiliate system on the other hand is going to die. It is inevitable. Retransmission consent costs and major networks taking the lions share of those revenues from affiliates while putting the best content in their own streaming silos -exclusively- is going to likely be the culprits.
Overall, broadcast is viable even if most of the viewership for its content is via OTT/streaming.
My guess would be reality tv slop on discovery or something.
It's a shame because I find myself missing the broadcast. I'm nostalgic for a block of programming a human put together. Maybe something with a VJ in between the shows or movies to chat a little.
My guess would be reality tv slop on discovery or something.
Nope
Conan is a treasure.
Late night TV isn’t dying. Like many things it is just failing to adapt.
Advertising is pulling out because nobody watched the show LIVE not because nobody watches the show. The vast majority of viewers watch on YouTube the next day.
It’s the same thing over again, Napster showed what people wanted and we got iTunes instead. Torrenting showed what people wanted and we got Netflix instead. People want to watch Colbert but as always the industry says “my way or the highway”.
if it was that simple i'm sure Netflix or some other streamer would offer a big name tons of money to do a streaming "late night" show. but I guess the institutional knowledge to run a daily show like that is not easy or cheap to replicate.
late night tv isn't dying it's being murdered by media cos and streamers who are so consumed with greed they keep pushing prices higher and higher
I mean moreso both of these things are symptoms of "line must always go up".
Good thing he's absolutely not. Colbert is a liberal corporate shill at best. His role is to be a wet blanket on leftist politics.
Edit: Lots of downvotes but no counter arguments here. I am always disappointed to see Lemmy users blindly supporting capitalists.
you didn't really make any kind of argument to counter, just an empty assertion.
If you find someone pushes back on leftist policies maybe consider they are just centrist, not "shills".
edit:
pasting this comment of mine from below. This person is pissed that colbert (correctly) criticized vaping 10 years ago.
okay adjusting to the shifting goalosts. This is not capitalism vs science because the science is on Colbert's side here. what specifically is your issue with that video? all he said between the jokes was the long term health effects of vaping are unknown, which any NIH study 9 years ago could not have known.
And now we know there are negative health effects from vaping. the CDC has an extensive list of citations. Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins agree. Vaping may not be as bad as cigarettes, but that doesn't mean it's harmless.
Colbert doesn’t want solutions to anything. He wants problems to make fun of.
The clear "solution" he is suggesting in the video is that we shouldn't be advertising vaping to kids. While yes, also making jokes.
To me it sounds like you're a vaping enthusiast who can't analyze this topic objectively and are holding a 10 year grudge against colbert for it.
The article itself is basically an empty assertion.
Colbert was bought and paid for by corporate media and he has now outlived his usefulness to them.
They kept him around for so long because he didn't seem to have any issues with pushing capitalist propaganda regardless of how it hurts people.
What really got me was his disinformation campaign about vaping. The science was already out at that point and he ignored it because he was told to ignore it.
This is just one example.
Let it die. A show this frequent can only end up being boring.
That was the point of his speech. He’s basically encouraging Colbert to follow in his footsteps with a podcast and a travel show on HBO.
It's a weird thing that so much competition for our attention is actually a horrific aspect of the future.
These guys need to start their own media company.
With blackjack and hookers
Conam has a podcast company