I hope this is sounding alarm bells for everyone else as much as me.
Larry's son buys Paramount (CBS) and promptly fires Stephen Colbert, a money making machine who was leading his timeslot as what was, in hindsight, a clear message to everyone that nobody is safe if they don't fall in line.
Larry now gets TikTok, which like it or not is the most influential social media platform among today's youth.
Both are Trump fanatics. This is the next stage in the Ailes playbook that has already gone too far in ruining the American experiment.
> Stephen Colbert, a money making machine
Unfortunately not: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/business/media/stephen-co...
Yes, as with all well-run businesses, it's common to terminate your flagship products due to one down year without any attempts to fix cost overruns. There's a reason the people at CBS keep leaking that it lost $50m last year but don't tell you how much it lost or made the previous 5 years, they just say "viewership was down since COVID".
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/07/20/wsj-late-night-...
Stephen Colbert shutting down was explained otherwise when it happened.
[1] https://www.natesilver.net/p/why-colbert-got-canceled
Conjecture. But, since the article says Colbert has 10 months left, I think this would be a awesome turn of events if they canceled his show for political reasons (to get Trump's FCC approval) only to ultimately keep the show now that the FCC has approved the deal. That would be the purest form of beating Trump at his own game.
Colbert a money making machine? Did the hackernews admins merge two threads from alternate universes?