Eric Deggans

Well, you know, you and I are people of a certain age.

I have a feeling there's fewer and fewer of us who watched him way back in his early days on TV and as a stand-up comic.

But they're leasing this time to Byron Allen.

Anyone who's watched those shows know that they can't compare to the original content the network was creating for those time slots.

And also, I think a lot of Colbert's fans realize or at least feel that he got canceled in order to appeal to the Trump administration.

So they're not going to watch that time slot anymore.

Right, yes.

So whatever they put there, but in particular what Byron Allen is doing, which is, you know, in my view, not nearly as good as the network program that was here, people are going to leave.

They're going to get lower ratings.

You know, CBS may have guaranteed that they're going to get a certain level of revenue no matter who watches it.

Because Byron Allen is paying them regardless of the ratings that he gets.

Right.

But they're also sort of ensuring that that space is going to be lower quality.

Fewer people will watch it, which means fewer people will be watching CBS.

And it just continues the cycle of encouraging people not to watch the linear channel.

If you put less...

interesting, compelling content on broadcast, then fewer people are going to watch it.

And that's the thing I don't understand, is why in the world are they creating a situation where they're accelerating...

The demise of the platform that still earns money, which is broadcast television.

At any rate, for whatever reason internally, they have made this decision.