Colbert lost CBS $40-50 million per year
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A 200-person staff, including 20 writers. A $100 million dollar budget. A $15 million salary for Colbert. Loses $40 million a year.
Ratings worse than 10,000 YouTubers - one person with a camera.
The free market doesn't lie, retard.
"A 200-person staff, including 20 writers. A $100 million dollar budget"
I was wondering about this when someone mentioned that they were keeping him on until his contract ends so they don't have to pay out.
Made me wonder how much of his budget was not under contract and if they would just make him write his own stuff and have a single cameraman.
If they reduced that $100 million to 39 million or below, it couldn't possibly do worse than a 40 million loss even if there are zero watchers.
Imagine having that kind of budget and not being able to produce anything that was funny
Proof that you can't write good humor by committee.
Just image the constant infighting of that group. You couldn't even accidentally get a real joke through I'm sure with the woke police on the case. No fun allowed and it showed.
Actually it easy you just say orange man and make a funny face at the camera
Generational wealth is something like $40 million in the bank.
That is enough to last you for your entire life, take care of your kids with a trust fund, and give a nice chunk to your grandkids too.
I point this out to give perspective on what $15 million a year actually means to a person and their future.
Money isn't lost when spent with the right people. The Colbert show staff served their purpose.
Yeah it's pretty obvious that they don't care about loss when pushing the agenda. Every production company pushing it is hemorrhaging amounts of money that should have bankrupted them but they keep coasting on.
To whoever is funding it, it's just the cost of trying to rule the world. How could that not be worth it?
Nailed it. His job was to handhold white America through their pharmaceutical enslavement, their mass migration replacement, and their transition to a single party communist state. His usefulness has expired, but he was a critical cog in the regime for four or five years.
that's exactly it. always been about pushing an agenda, the losses when only factoring advertising dollars and carriage fees were irrelevant. they're in the game of politically influencing the masses.
the only reason they're being cancelled is because no one is watching. random ass youtubers and podcasters do more viewership with a fucking laptop.
They all did.
This highlights a fundamental difference between the "right" and the "left"
The "left" would view this as money invested in a propaganda network and payments made as patronage to prop up and reward their own side.
The "right" views it purely through market forces and is incapable of seeing why they were paying him or doing something similar.
How is "the right" incapable of seeing that? All I see is people calling him out as a propagandist.
GP points out that Colbert is being rewarded with a place at the trough, rather than given fee for service.
China (and a bunch of the Left) work by "Elite Capture"; which is they capture the top individuals in a field. A captured individual supports the party machine, and is rewarded for their loyalty.
Colbert is being cut off by circumstance, but he has already given the best years of his career to advancing the right views. All of CBS is captured; Colbert is a visible public face who is receiving a particularly large reward for his loyalty.
This is very different for the "market forces" "fee for service" arrangement that conservatives would consider. They look at these mediocre talents receiving unbelievable amounts of money and they are just confused.
Mike Cernovich a few years ago was trying to get his doco "hoaxed" off the ground and he said it was real hard to get funding from right wing people with money because they would immediately ask "but how will this make money" instead of seeing it as spending money to influence the culture. The ideal is pervasive.
This reminds me of when people on the right celebrates that woke content is bombing, like this is what will stop the propaganda machine. They don't know that the propaganda machine can bleed money forever as their sources of (((funding))) will never cease.
The right are purely mercantile, sons of the shopkeepers, and truly believe in an invisible hand of the market.
No, no it's all because he said the 16 million payout to Trump was a bribe. He's a victim and a hero. /s
Manufacturing consent for a regime already in power was worth $50 million a year, but ginning up outrage toward the regime when you're out of power apparently isn't.
Because the regime never left power.
They could have hired me, I can get paid half his salary and lose the same amount of money
Before or after the Mockingbird payments?
Thanks Adam shiff