No.
And that’s why CBS was losing $40 million a year or more on it annually.
Stewart, you want him back on, YOU pay for it.
Because CBS/Paramount Global was likely getting taxpayer funded subsidies to make up for the loss.
Bingo. There are suspicions that Paramount Global/CBS was getting "under the table" payments to "paper over" the US$40 million per year loss. How? By having USAID send money to an offshore NGO and the NGO sending back money through a back channel back to Paramount/CBS. Essentially, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was subsidized from what amounts to a slush fund.