Posted on 07/19/2025 6:38:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“So, for the first time in history, Americans have stopped watching NBC, CBS TV, and ABC,” reported commentator Bill O’Reilly Thursday. “Their viewing level has fallen below 20 percent — unheard of.”
“And it’s because they’re boring and they’re far left,” O’Reilly elaborated. “That’s the two reasons.”
The latest casualty of this legacy-media collapse is notable, too.
CBS is canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, effective after the 2025-’26 season.
The move will end what will have been a 33-year run that began with host David Letterman in 1993. Colbert took the show’s helm in 2015, shortly after Letterman’s retirement.
The news-making announcement has prompted some observers to ask: Is this the death of the late-night genre? Actually, it portends far more:
The old media’s slow but sure demise, as new media come to flower and inherit the former’s mantle. With media/entertainment not being on our culture’s periphery, but at its center, it’s a sea change at least as significant as the transition from horse and buggy to automobile.
No one should feel too sorry for Colbert. After all, with an approximate $75 million net worth, he won’t be missing too many meals. It’s clear, too, that many won’t miss him. For example, PJ Media’s David Manney picked up where O’Reilly left off and wrote, comedically:
Nearly all of us have that uncle who knows he is the funniest guy in the room. Unfortunately, he has to explain his own jokes, wait for the laughs, and hear crickets.
That is Stephen Colbert.
After a long decade of being our unfunny uncle, he repeats that act every night. Finally, at long last, CBS performed the...
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I think if the networks hired a less partisan host, people would still watch. Jay Leno is a public Democrat but was fair to his guest, and pretty funny. I enjoyed watching him.
It’s difficult to succeed when you alienate 1/2 to 3/5s of the population right off the bat
With God all things are possible.
“””article: Is Kimmel next?””
I didn’t know he was still on.
Oh no, what will purple hairs do without the Kimmel Estrogen Hour?
Let’s face it....They might as well go to old movies...Late night shows are over...They’re garbage...
“Da media” is a friggin’ JOKE! No credibility. Just lies. Nothing. JUST LIES. All of them. Worthless America and American haters. No that they got scumbags who are here illegally working for them, it’s even worse. Real scum trashing America.
I hope they fire that cross-eyed pr*ck Kimmel.
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Dinosaur TV
Outside of sports I have not watched network television in years.
I don’t even watch sports.
Is Kimmel making money for the network or is his show also a loser? If he’s losing money there comes a time when the network is going to cancel him regardless of his propaganda value.
It’s all fine and dandy till they replace these folks with comedians who are even WORSE.
so let’s pray the opposite happens!
Kimmel better pray that there’s not another war or hostage crisis. If there is, he’ll be gone and won’t be coming back. I don’t like the guy, but I’ll avoid praying for more war.
I notice that the idea of putting on a funny and entertaining show hasn’t occurred to them.
Kimmel is the third of the three, so unless his show is really cheap (unlikely) he’s also losing money.
I remember when comedians were funny.
I may have been one of the few people who did not love Johny Carson. I certainly did not hate him. I hate Kimmel, Colbert, and Letterman. I liked Johny Carson. He was a nice guy. He didn’t seem to have a mean bone in his body.
When Johnny Carson was on, there was only 3 tv channels on.
Very little competition. Plus he was a decent man who respected his audience.
That time is long gone.
Or at least not so politicized while ON camera.
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