CBS and NBC and bad business

[liberty]

It seems CBS and NBC recently canceled their late-night talk shows — one hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the other by Stephen Colbert. There’s a lesson to be learned from this: in business, it’s generally unwise to go out of your way to antagonize half — or perhaps more than half — of your potential market.

CBS was reportedly losing around $40 million a year, and while Colbert may not have cared (he was still getting paid), the financial losses were real.

And just because people care about uncontrolled immigration, the national debt, or maintaining a strong defense for our country — that does not make them evil, self-centered, or foolish. Dismissing a large segment of the public that holds sincere concerns is not only unfair, it’s bad business.

[Burning Petard]

Yes the Stephen Cobert show has been cancelled by the CBS tv network, under instructions from the owner, but effective after next year, so the cancellation may be as subject to change as Trump's tariff rates. The tv broadcasting industry is in a state of great change. Broadcasting is now the neglected step child and there is not as much money available there was back when there were only three networks, plus maybe a local educational tv channel.

But Mr. Liberty, I can find no news anywhere verifying that Kimmel has been cancelled.

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[Joe Guy]

it’s generally unwise to go out of your way to antagonize half — or perhaps more than half — of your potential market.....

......Dismissing a large segment of the public that holds sincere concerns is not only unfair, it’s bad business.

You mean like Fox, Newsmax, OAN, Breitbart, Daily Wire, National Review, Washington Examiner.....etc.?

And as BP noted, Kimmel hasn't been fired.

[liberty]

it’s generally unwise to go out of your way to antagonize half — or perhaps more than half — of your potential market.....

......Dismissing a large segment of the public that holds sincere concerns is not only unfair, it’s bad business.

You mean like Fox, Newsmax, OAN, Breitbart, Daily Wire, National Review, Washington Examiner.....etc.?

And as BP noted, Kimmel hasn't been fired.

There are rumors flying around, but it looks like only one episode was canceled—and he canceled it. Still, since his friend’s show got the axe, maybe Jimmy Kimmel should flex his influence. He could start ATTACKING red-state viewers just to show ABC how powerful he is. Heck, maybe even invoke individuals by name and wish those folk's bad luck. Let's see how that works out!

[MajGenl.Meade]

liberty wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 28, 2025 2:06 am
it’s generally unwise to go out of your way to antagonize half — or perhaps more than half — of your potential market.....

......Dismissing a large segment of the public that holds sincere concerns is not only unfair, it’s bad business.

But my dear, the "large segment of the public" you refer to is (a) not intelligent enough to stay up late in order to comprehend the truth about their fake president and/or (ii) tossing and turning in their beds rejoicing over his plans for destruction of the USA

[Bicycle Bill]

They can cancel and silence Colbert.  They can cancel and silence Kimmel.   They can turn all of mainstream media into a right-wing echo chamber, like the ruling party did in "V for Vendetta" (which was better shown in the original graphic novel as opposed to the Hugo Weaving/Natalie Portman movie adaptation)¹ — although one wonders why they would bother, since they have always written it off as 'lamestream media' or 'fake news'.

But in the day of the modern internet, they can't silence *ME* or any of the rest of the people who know and believe the truth — because unlike TV show hosts or celebrities or sports figures or politicians, we don't really have anything to lose.  The millions of us out there can freely go to chat-rooms and comment on articles and fact check and blog and fill Facebook and other social media sites with the truth.   All the others can do against that is try to suppress it entirely — you know, when the "your comment has been rejected because it does not follow community guidelines" notice pops up after hitting 'submit', or when pre-existing posts suddenly vanish, which only further reveals their true colors and intentions — or bury it beneath their own bullshit.

And there's one other thing to remember ... bullshit is fertilizer.   Just like seeds will sprout and grow through a layer of manure on a farm field, so too will the truth sprout and grow and eventually emerge, like a stalk of corn, straight and strong and tall, above all of the right-wing's bullshit.
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¹ — If you haven't read the graphic novel itself — either the original serialized 13-issue 'comic book' version published by DC Comics or the perfect-bound square-back trade paperback reprint published by Vertigo which combined them all into a single volume — I strongly recommend you do so, especially in the light of Trump's second administration.  As I noted above, the movie was OK, but so much was changed or just plain omitted from the original work by Alan Moore — which delved far deeper than any two-hour Hollywood adaptation ever could — that he distanced himself as far as possible from the end result.

-"BB"-