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I can't recall seeing a pink graphic before, outside of maybe a Play4Kay basketball game.
Five years ago today, the 2020 MLB season began with a doubleheader of Yankees-Nationals and Giants-Dodgers on ESPN.
Jimmy Fallon: "Everybody is talking about CBS's decision to end 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert', and many people are now threatening to boycott the network. CBS could lose millions of viewers, plus tens of hundreds watching on Paramount+."
The NBA Summer League championship tonight is in its eighth different TV slot in as many years: '25: Sunday 10pm, ESPN '24: Monday 8pm, ESPN '23: Monday 9pm, ESPN '22: Sunday 3pm, ESPN '21: Tuesday 9pm, ESPN '19: Monday 9pm, ESPN2 '18: Tuesday 10pm, ESPN '17: Monday 10pm, ESPN
If you are wondering how the WNBA All-Star Game is going, Elle Duncan just said "Like a girls trip to Cancun, right now there's no D."
When I started writing about media in 2006, it was radio that was dying. Now the paradigm has shifted hard to TV. What Clear Channel did to radio is what Paramount, Disney, and others are currently doing to TV.
This echoes my thoughts pretty well. Putting aside whatever your political views of the decision may be, it's tough to see more confirmation that the 'monoculture' is dead and to think about what that means for the rest of traditional TV.
Here is an interesting comparison: Nielsen viewership: Colbert: 2.41M Kimmel: 1.77M Fallon: 1.19M TikTok + Instagram followers (show accounts): Colbert: 6.6M (2.9M + 3.7M) Kimmel: 6.6M (2.3M + 4.3M) Fallon: 43.6M (24.4M + 19.2M)
‘The Late Show’ was the most-watched late-night show on broadcast TV in Q2, averaging 2.41M viewers, ahead of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ (1.77M) and ‘The Tonight Show’ (1.19M), per LateNighter. This comes just months after CBS announced it would stop programming the 12:30 a.m. slot.
Every Super Bowl lead-out show from the past 30 years:
Notable properties that CBS has lost the rights to/canceled in the 2020s: - SEC football - The Grammy Awards - 'The Late Show', 'The Late Late Show', and 'After Midnight' - Thanksgiving Day Parade unofficial broadcast - 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' and 'Frosty the Snowman'
‘The Late Show’ was the most-watched late-night show on broadcast TV in Q2, averaging 2.41M viewers, ahead of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ (1.77M) and ‘The Tonight Show’ (1.19M), per LateNighter. This comes just months after CBS announced it would stop programming the 12:30 a.m. slot.
‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Ending Next Year With CBS Retiring Late-Night Franchise deadline.com/2025/07/the-la…
“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Grok” well I asked Steve Lappas and he said you don’t need a three here.
This is the first time since 2013 that Fox's corner bug has read "ALL STAR GAME". In recent years, it had just said "ALL STAR".
