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?
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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
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.
I said dying, not dead. It'll never truly completely die. But will eventually zombify into a casting of its former self.
Conan is a treasure.
These guys need to start their own media company.
With blackjack and hookers
Conam has a podcast company
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”.
It's a weird thing that so much competition for our attention is actually a horrific aspect of the future.
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".
Let it die. A show this frequent can only end up being boring.
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 lol. 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. What NIH study are you referring to?
And now we know there are negative health effects from vaping. the CDC has an extensive list of citations. If you're worried about trump admin v2 interference in this page, all the citations are dated pre-2025. Or check other sources [1] [2]. 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.
well firstly vaping isn't a left/right biased issue.
what disinformation about it did he push?
even if it was incorrect information, it doesn't mean he was paid to push it. he could have just been, you know, wrong.
It's a capitalism Vs science issue. I'm not saying he's right wing, I'm saying he's a capitalist that puts profit over truth.
It's just so transparent.
At this time the NIH studies were already out and just being ignored because they were inconvenient to corporate America.
Colbert doesn't want solutions to anything. He wants problems to make fun of.
Colbert doesn't want solutions to anything. He wants problems to make fun of.
You do realize the man is a comedian? Making fun of problems is kinda his job description.
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.