Are Colbert and Stewart toast once Paramount-Skydance merger is done?

[Bob Jersey]

So wondered Oliver Darcy, ex-CNN, in his latest (strictly-paywalled) Status.news post, monitored by Jed Rosenzweig at Latenighter... it's easy to consider that the Ellisons, to placate le gros orange, tone down the two to the point they quit rather than be fired...

https://latenighter.com/news/report-colbert-and-stewart-on-shaky-ground-as-skydance-paramount-merger-nears-completion/ (link)

B

[Tom Wolper]

I have been following an ex-ESPN journalist named Joon Lee on YouTube. He says that there are two things ruining sports today. One is the hot take industry, of which he was once a part. The other is the attention being given over to sports betting but that’s not relevant to this.

Sports journalists are commanding attention and making names for themselves by offering more outrageous takes on what’s going on in sports without doing any research or even trying to get confirmation.

This Oliver Darcy story smells to me like a hot take. If there are actual discussions going on at CBS/Paramount about changing the hosts I understand why nobody would go on the record or want to be quoted as a source. And it’s an attention grabbing story. There’s just no way to know if it’s all hot air or top level executives think that it’s worth pulling the trigger and paying the consequences.

Stewart’s contract is up at the end of the year and if they decide not to sign a new one that’s ambiguous enough to say he’s not being silenced and he could move on to YouTube or another platform and make more money.

If they fire Colbert or let his contract lapse nobody is going to want to succeed him as host. If they sign Greg Gutfeld or find some MAGA-friendly comic to host, nobody will want to be a guest. CBS might as well sell the time slot to Byron Allen.

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[Greg Diener]

I'm sure if he gets fired, Stewart will probably blame the Democrats or Wuhan lab scientists for it.

Greg

[Bob Jersey]

This is why I still admire Dan Patrick. He might note odds on events, though it's likely only due to a sponsorship from a legal book, and when he or his "Danettes" wander into hot take land, it's nearly always with comedic intent.    B

Tom Wolper, to moi, in part, July 11th:

[brugdr]

Strictly my opinion, of course, but it seems hard to poke fun at a sports media tactic that comes across as self-parody.

David