chazzed said:
wifeisafurd said:
I would have thought Cobert was so clever, and his show so lucrative and ratings so big, some channel would have picked it up (sarcasm intended). The market has spoken.
So has the repressive regime. I suspect we'll see Colbert again.
I'm just wondering which late night show dies next? The old white male liberals that still watch are dying off or just not making to the late hour and younger male audiences are not watching much late night TV period.
The Late Show with Stephen Colber
t and Jimmy Kimmel Live
! are widely recognized as having the oldest average viewing audiences among major late-night talk shows. The
Late Show averaged a viewer age in the high 50s to upper 60s one the last few years, often because it is frequently preceded by older-skewing local evening news in many regions (younger folks don't get their news much from network TV either). It also seems to be the same old stuff from my limited watching experience.
I know some people just thought Colbert wasn't funny, which is fine (I didn't watch him), but the market also is saying with declining ratings in late night talk shows generally, these relatively expensive shows are ripe for cutting.
I'm subjected to Gutfeld which is not particularly funny at my gym while working out during early evening, and he comes off (to me) as somewhat condescending,, but his panel discussions are witty, generally antiestablishment and do often raise many viewpoints. It is one of the most watched TV programs, and surprisingly does well with audiences in the 25-54 demographic. And it dominates the talk snows, though they are splitting the liberal types among several (and too many) shows. That said, the number of viewers watching Kimmel has gone way down from the Leno days, but that corresponds with a huge decline in the number of viewers on linear TV. Thus, Kimmel has a greater share of a much smaller market. Kimmel has not had a raise for some time (he still makes plenty) and got a one year extension. The late-night television business faces intense financial pressure due to sinking ad revenue and rising production costs even with guys like Kimmel abstaining from salary increases, and you just have to wonder when it will end. You would think even Gutfeld will get stale.
Maybe you just end up watching whatever it is people still watch the most on linear TV now like syndicated show (sorry, I only watch linear TV for live sports).
