This is insanity?

>>212956978 (OP)
Political institution

His salary was 22 Millies, if I am not mistaken.

He had to pay a lot of money for people to dress as needles and write jokes for him

>>212957012
$80 Million is still a lot of fucking money.
Do they pay the guests? I don't get it...

>>212957044 Homie, this is 2025. AI rules.

>Why does it cost so much to do business in one of the most expensive places in the world?
Anons please

>>212957131
Why did he have to pay 30+ million a year for a staff if he's so talented?

>>212957131
Studio operation 30M - for fucking what? Electricity? It's not like it's a different set every time...what a waste of money.

>>212957167
And who told you he is so talented?

>>212957144
why is that place so expensive?

>>212956978 (OP)
Laundering

>>212957206
The assumption you make when somebody is paid $15mil+ a year is that they're good at their job

>>212956978 (OP)
In Europe shows like that are iirc produced by the company of the host and licenced back to the broadcaster. Cost=price is a matter of negotiation, it's worth its price if there's enough eyes glued to the screen consuming ads.

>>212957218
there are special ghost wards that keep the paranormal predators away from the talent

>>212957188
Gotta pay all the lighting/audio/camera guys.

i dont think its that crazy that it costs 100 million per year, i think its crazy that its unable to earn that money back

>>212956978 (OP)
imagine how bad it would be if it costed less
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xj1U7cwL0X0

>>212957242
G-G-G-GHOSTS!?

>>212957250
Why do you think THAT's crazy? Nobody watched the damn thing.

>>212957233
litereally almost everything is jewish money laundering for real

>>212957188
Yeah, that's delusional. Either fiction or money laundering

>>212957324
Quick! Switch from Oi to Vey!

>>212957299
thats my point. There's a loser streaming in from attic in Austin, Texas, talking about Trump, and he makes more money than The Late Show and he isnt even trying.

You gotta pay the band. Those spooks don't jig for peanuts.

How many episodes per season do they make?

>>212956978 (OP)
Dang, that's like 2 pennies for every time Trump makes them look like idiots.

Reminder that magatroons will cheer for censorship when it's done to protect their daddy from criticisms. Their "free speech absolutism" means "behead those who insult pappi"

>>212957415
>censorship
Nobody is stopping him from talking. Its just that companies will stop paying him millions of dollars to talk shit about them.

>>212957409
So it's 87 episodes. That means an episodes costs roughly $1.2 millions

LOL

>>212957415
>channel canceling its own show is censorship.
are you braindead or something?

>>212957234
no, you assume they're a leech. 100k to 150k is "good at their job"and anything more is either very specialized and good at their job or leech territory

>>212957131
> give or take 30 million dollars

>>212957404
SHEEEEEEEEEET

>>212956978 (OP)
>>212957044
I will NEVER believe filmmaking/television actually costs more than maybe $15million, and I'm being really generous. How the fuck can pointing cameras at people playing pretend possibly cost this much? It's just a way for jews to launder money will spreading propaganda at the same time.

How much did it cost CBS to have Craig Ferguson host a show that was 1000 times better than Colbert's?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_w8rTkfOfc

>>212957011
This. They operate at a loss because propaganda is crucial to the regime.

Don’t you find it odd that after massive spending cuts on PBS and other media projects Colbert got canned?

>>212957131
>$30-40million for staff+writers
How fucking much are they spending to have people sit around writing jokes that aren't even funny for a living?

>>212956978 (OP)
Stephen Colbert or CBS fucked up by strictly being a traditional late-night show.
they didn't do any digital content for youtube, no cross-promotional gigs with awards/games shows, no podcasts, etc.

even Fallon, Kimmel, and O'Brien who are nowhere as big as Colbert have outlived Colbert because they adapted.

>>212957415
This thread is not for censorship idiot...it's just about the cost of the show.

>>212957569
I mean per person, obviously.

forget Colbert, does ANYONE besides boomers still watch late night show formats?
I'm surprised they haven't been all axed yet.

get with the times grandpa and switch to streaming.

>>212956978 (OP)
it's money laundering you fucking retard
it's why hollywood movies cost 300 million dollars

it's fucking money laundering.

>>212957250
>>212957257
I mean I get it if the show was extremely popular and they had insane viewership but it's just 2M old democrat boomers. It's not surprising the show was losing $40M per year.

>>212957524
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyt64atjBMw

>>212956978 (OP)
>How does the Colbert show cost $100 Million per year?
it doesnt they are just lying to you, dumb chud

>>212957188
>>212957329
>>212957510
>>212957653

Can't wait for school to start again

>>212957619
That's what I'm thinking.
>300M
More like 500 if you count the "advertisement" which I don't know how ads cost $200M, that's also a mystery.

>>212957814
if it was greg gutfeld you would agree, fag

Stephen Colbert will do fine and find greener pastures.
A better question is what the hell is CBS going to do?
They killed off their highest-rated late night show format and with no replacement.
CBS isn't exactly showing confidence about the survival of broadcast TV.

>>212957857
they killed it off to please orange man, everyone knows this.

>>212957415
We learned it from the left

>>212957838
>No denial
What grade are you going into?

>>212957917
no you didnt you are all the things you pretend to hate and always were

>>212957524
the main reason they let him be on the air so long is probably because his show didn't cost them anything

>>212957908
It pleases a lot of people

>>212957409
5 days a week, 52 weeks a year

>>212957857
>find greener pastures.
At best he's going to have someone ghost-write another book that the left will buy (to stick it to the people that fired him) and then never read it.

>>212957857
I wonder which streaming company will pick up Stephen Colbert?

>>212958050
Libs in Hollywood will keep throwing him bones. Like they did with Alec Baldwin who had to literally kill a woman before they decided he was a money loss.

>>212956978 (OP)
It costs $200 million a year. Don't believe their lies

>>212957167
He said himself that the show employs over 200 people, it's probably a conservative wage estimate too.
>>212957188
The studio is owned by the parent company but they probably charge the production company what would effectively be rent and upkeep etc . So it's not a hard outgoing "cost" but it's still a dead asset that could be making more money.

>>212958050
nah, he's brings in quite alot of views for a dying medium like late night shows, he's going to sign up with a streaming company.
too good an opportunity to pass up.

>>212957629
It was losing $400m per year

>>212958100
you know how many young boys that buys?

>>212956978 (OP)

Colbert needed all that money to feed the poor.

>>212958139
wow that's almost $600 million per year

if if a low-tier faggot like Jimmy Kimmel still has his own show, then Colbert will do fine after his contract is up.

>>212957218
It's one of two Alpha++ global cities.

>>212958118
>the show employs over 200 people
lol

>>212958183
hope they fire his crying ass next.

>>212958100
wrong it costs $400 million a year.
you wouldn't believe the number of LSD and young boys Colbert and his writers goes through to get their creative juices flowing.

>>212958183
From what I'm reading Kimmel's productions costs are the same $1 to 2 Million per episode...fucking lol

>>212958232
He won't insult Trump's deal with Disney because there is nothing like that happening. They aren't merging anytime soon unlike Colbert's bosses. He will be fine and you'll cry about it

You think they don't have to pay the celebrity guests they have? Lol, actors don't just get booked, the network has to pay a certain amount of money to make that happen, it doubles when its someone who's there to promote a movie or show or something.

so late night shows are finally getting axed.
what does linear broadcast TV even have left?
scripted procedurals?
sports?

>>212958272
but not cry as much as Kimmel, right? He's probably crying right now over some faggy shit.

>>212957188
Everyone knows that the "studio operation" portion covered his comet ping pong costs, both to find new recruitment agents, and to pay lawyers and private detectives to cover it up

>>212958409
>paying someone to have them promote THEIR movie.

huh? that's like paying someone to fuck your wife.

>>212958485
...you don't do that?

>>212956978 (OP)
Some of the staff were eating 2 scoops of icecream and this inflated the budget insanely

>>212957044
Guests get SAG AFTRA scale. And maybe comps, depending. Sometimes the company associated with the guest covers that.

>>212956978 (OP)
Supposed to be connected to marketing power. What did Colbert ever sell anyone?

>>212958599
>Colbert ever sell anyone?

>>212957908
if they were going to do it, why are they letting Stephen have one last season to run till next May? no they're just choosing to not renew his contract, they paid for it, they'll get their moneys worth in that moneypit.

>>212957167
30m for 200 staff is $150k per average. Sounds right for NYC.

>>212958661
>if they were going to do it, why are they letting Stephen have one last season to run till next May?
so retards like you can argue they didnt

>>212956978 (OP)
They should just end the show now. If the company says it's losing them money then do it right now.

>>212958651
Yeah, besides the obvious. I guess that shit brings in a lot of money. Also, only the dumbest assholes are anti-vaxx, that's beyond chud and into demented retard territory. So, we don't need 100 million in propaganda for it. Allow natural selection to take its course. Its ok, God created natural selection, just like everything else. Thought welfare.

>>212958699
>If the company says it's losing them money then do it right now.
Colbert probably has a contract and everything is already paid, might as well use it for propaganda

>>212956978 (OP)
so-ing isn't free, nigga

>>212958773
>Also, only the dumbest assholes are anti-vaxx
lmao

>>212956978 (OP)
1. paying celebrity guests fuckloads of money to appear on a low-rated show

2. money-laundering, and it simply didn't cost $100 million per year

Pick one.

>>212958485
That's Right, we'll fuck your wife because at Big Bill Hell's you're fucked six ways from Sunday!

>>212958485
Actors, actresses, directors. They don't go on Kimmel or Colbert for free out of the kindness of their hearts

>>212959239
They used to be required to go on for free by TV and movie studios as well as record labels and book publishers to promote (((CURRENT THING))).

>>212959239
So you go on to promote a movie or a book and THEY pay you?
LOL if true

>>212956978 (OP)
he could've financed the ukraine war with that money

>>212959347
Yeah and Unions changed that,

>>212958965
>paying celebrity guests fuckloads of money to appear
You think ScarJo is going around the interview circuit to hype up the Jurassic World movie she's in because she loved doing the movie? Fuck no.

Its option 1 obviously

>>212957584
>CBS
Is literally the network that almost never adapts to anything because they know their audience, and they'll never try to rock the boat with anything that isn't an FBI or NCIS spinoff or any other cop show

>>212959731
She does it because the contract she signed with universal includes promotion ya dingus

>>212957569
"Staff + writers" includes any of the 200 people they employed as hairdressers, makeup artists, etc. Probably stage crew like camera, lighting, set designers unless those are part of "Studio Operations".

>>212959863
Isn't CBS literally where the Supergirl TV show originates from?
That wasn't a cop show

>>212957908
Still going with this reddit cope are we?

So.......Scrabumble Bloomf is in the news today.......
>*orders fifty gallons of adrenochrome*

>>212956978 (OP)
They hire the best comedy writers. That has to cost a lot.

>>212960139
That's funny, they oughta hire you!

>>212960069
>Probably stage crew like camera, lighting, set designers unless those are part of "Studio Operations".
I would assume they're under studio operations, but how many people do they even need for that? Isn't it mostly just Stephen Colbert sitting behind a desk acting like a smug faggot? Same thing with the hair dressers and makeup artists, how many do you possibly need to get one guy ready to sit there and talk?

>>212956978 (OP)
He hires his friends and pays them with other people's money so naturally they are all going to inflate their salaries to an insane degree.

>>212957383
Link?

>>212960246
They probably have several hairdressers and makeup artists. Basically anyone who is expected to be on camera will get makeup, hair and clothing work including the band and the guests. I wonder where catering is in the equation, or the people that book guests and arrange travel, etc.

I don't watch late night, but if you want to know where the money is going just read the credits. It's NYC so everyone in this credits is making at least $100k.

>>212960139
Here are his writers.

>>212956978 (OP)
It doesn't. Companies also say it takes 20 million or more, a lot more, to restore old films. That's very interesting because fans make edits that wipe the floor with official releases on a regular basis for budgets way under 10 grand. Sometimes it's done for less than 6 grand.

Colbert is just able to leverage his name and influence enough that CBS gave hime that much a retarded amount of money

>>212957612
No, the number of people watching in the 18-49 prime demographic that the all important advertisers love was like 200k.

>>212957857
Throw some cheap reality show up that will cost less & actually make money

Colbert Show "Staff". Assume that's most of them. And everyone else is " Crew" of some sort.

Not very diverse for NYC is it?

>>212957415 >>212957908

He’s been shitting out of his mouth of the last 30+ years and with what they were paying him you’d think he could have done something about his feeble ear.

i would love to see this as a sign that CBS is shaking things up and will look at what kind of podcasts and streams people DO watch on droves, and find a way to bring that to the timeslot. I
Imagine if for example, Mondays aired 40 minute highlights of latest Joe Rogan podcasts, Tuesday had 40 minutes of Kai Cenat making noises, Wendsdays aired 40 minute of Asmongold talking about whatever he wants. You may think thats retarded, but they'd get views and whichever doesnt or is too edgy, you just replace him, its only once a week or once every two weeks slot.
This will never happen obviously

>>212960595
so very pasty

>>212957188
Colbert's show is the only thing shot at the Ed Sullivan Theater. That means every cost associated with operating (maintenance, property taxes, etc.) that building is tied to his show. I'm sure there's also some very Jewish thing where one division of Paramount is paying another division of Paramount to use the building.

The is in contrast to Jimmy Fallon's show, which is shot at 30 Rock. NBC shoots four or five different shows from that building, so all of those basic operational costs are shared.

>>212960121
They moved that show to The CW after a single season. Viewership went fractional because the elderly people who watched the first season didn't care (know how?) to change the channel.

>>212957612
>get with the times grandpa and switch to streaming.

There have been multiple streaming talk shows put out by Apple, Netflix, Peacock, etc. and they all get shitcanned within 2 years. John Stewart's show on Apple TV was down to 44,000 viewers by episode 5.

The entire genre is antiquated. This was filler television conceived when people had 3 or 4 options. Viewership during the late night hours weren't high enough to justify original scripted content, but there was enough of an audience to do something new. It's the same mindset that created the afternoon game shows - another genre that's dying off in the streaming world. These shows were never appointment television, they just had to be more attractive than reruns.

If you want interviews, you'll find far more in-depth conversations with the same figures online. If you want music, you can listen to those musicians directly. If you want some garbage political rant, there are people doing that 24/7. This format is just outdated and better yet, all of those other options are made at a fraction of the cost.

>>212960980
Ratings were abysmal for that first season too, that and superpowers are costly.

>>212957012
He should have plenty of money saved up by now to start his own show. All you need is a room and two microphones and you could do it Rogan style.

>>212957908
The problem with this logic is that they could've just replaced him with some MIGA shill or someone who wasn't a political sperg. Even worse, CBS had already cancelled the show that followed Colbert months ago. They're getting out of late-night entirely.

They're either giving those hours back to affiliates, offering them reruns or later-night news.

>>212961193
>Viewership during the late night hours weren't high enough to justify original scripted content,

There were. There have been syndicated scripted shows in that slot. And CBS, way back when, ran UK shows like The New Avengers there.

>>212957131
>licensing guests
Don’t they promote their book/movie at the end? Why would they be paid? This shit sounds retarded.

>>212960461
There's obviously sketchy money moving going on in Hollywood, but this is faulty logic. How many of those fan restorations are paying people for their work vs. an incredibly dedicated autist doing it for free? StarWarsSperg1977 might not care that he spent 200 hours meticulously restoring the movie because he loves it, but what if that was his job and it wasn't a movie he liked?

>>212960719
90% of Colbert's audience were over the age of 50. How many of them do you think are going to watch Asmongold? Do you think the amount of younger (lol) people they'd attract be enough to make up for that decline in their core audience? It's linear TV in 2025.

>>212961502
>How many of those fan restorations are paying people for their work vs. an incredibly dedicated autist doing it for free? StarWarsSperg1977 might not care that he spent 200 hours meticulously restoring the movie because he loves it, but what if that was his job and it wasn't a movie he liked?

You just proved my point, man. StarWarsSperg is doing it for free, but LargeCorpGlomCInc can certainly get the same job done if not better for slightly more than zero. Meaning, sure they can pay one to fifteen guys 100K each or less, but instead insist that it takes 50 times that. See what I mean now?

>>212961304
Nobody's gonna watch that. Boomers are not gonna watch it, only the most retarded zoomers would watch his podcast. 150k views tops.

>>212960121
And they gave it to another network because the boomer audience don't really accept A. Younger protagonists (Kara's canonically 26) and B. Sci-fi/Horror

>>212961593
>90% of Colbert's audience
who cares about Colbert's audience

> Do you think the amount of younger (lol) people they'd attract be enough to make up for that decline in their core audience?
yes i do. And again, you have 7 or 14 timeslots this way, you can easily compare views and know what works and what doesnt work and rotate them out. If asmongold doesnt work, you try something else. There's some individual or a group of people in America who people will want to listen for 40 minutes once a week

You can see it during the first commercial break. There's a million assistant women who do nothing. Probably make 200K each.

>>212961761
Bit what if I pitch Chainsaw Man to them? Y'know, except Devils are now a terror group, Makima is a sleeper agent and remove all the powers and monsters?

>tries to lay off some of the extra women
>YOU CAN'T FIRE ME I'M A PEOPLE PERSON YOU WON'T KEEP GUESTS WITHOUT ME!
>keeps job from having near meltdown
>repeats with 70 more staff members

>>212961661
Zero chance he gets a steady 150 on full episodes

>>212956978 (OP)
It's really, really important to fascists that you know how expensive this show was. It's critical to their narrative.

>>212962589
Are the fascists in the room with us right now?

>>212962644
I'm in his walls
I whisper >billions must die
to him while he sleeps

>>212962589
So your position is that the show losing CBS tens of millions a year has no bearing on why they pulled the plug? Some bearing?

>>212960783
and jewish

>>212962739
Same except I educate him on the Jews

At least a few million is earmarked for his glasses. A sleek black number like that doesn't come cheap, and they need to be simonized regularly by a team of cleaners.

>>212960857
Jimmy Fallon's show is also hemmorhaging millions of dollars. Only difference is lorne michaels is willing to eat the cost

>>212956978 (OP)
>How
The 200 kikes hired as "writers" and paid 250k a year.
Its basically just a scheme to reinforce kike power in kikewood.

>>212956978 (OP)
The kids/blow he needs to get ready before the shows don't deliver themselves

Why are people ITT saying he pays for kids or wants kids? Qrd? Did I miss something?

>>212963941
He's a liberal, liberals are notorious for being or enable pedophiles

>>212961593
>90% of Colbert's audience were over the age of 50.
It's really funny because it just makes it all the more obvious that the younger people posting about this online pretending to be upset by "censorship" weren't even watching this shit to begin with either

>I am not crazy! I know he swapped those scoops. I knew it was 32 flavors. One after Basskin Robins. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just – I just couldn’t prove it. He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the ice cream shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He’s done worse. That soft serve! Are you telling me that a McDonald's ice cream machine just happens to break like that? No! He orchestrated it! Donny! He defecated in the rocky road! And I saved him! And I shouldn’t have. I took him into my own show! What was I thinking? He’ll never change. He’ll never change! Ever since he was on the escalator, always the same! Couldn’t keep his scoop out of the ice cream! But not our Donny! Couldn’t be precious Donny! Scooping them blind! And HE gets to be a president? What a sick joke! I should’ve stopped him when I had the chance! …And you, you have to stop him! You-

>>212963941
welcome to Pedowood

>WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE JUST STANDING THERE?
>DON'T YOU SEE WHAT HE'S DOING?
>THIS IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY... TO... TO FREE SPEECH!
>YOU'RE JUST GOING TO LET HIM TAKE MY SHOW LIKE THIS?
>STOP LAUGHING, IT'S... IT'S NOT FUNNY!

>>212965346
>Indian magatroons spamming their AI and their jerkoff fantasies.
What a magical age we live in.

idiot

>>212956978 (OP)
Simple. They're fucking lying.

>>212960595
'Light, bright, damn sure ain't white.'

>>212961500
This, I always assumed the studios paid to have their talent on those shows.

>>212962739
>>212956978 (OP)
they look exactly alike

>Eric Andre's show cost 3 million a season
The cost-to-entertainment ratio just isn't there for Colbert

>>212965118
>the younger people posting about this online pretending to be upset by "censorship" weren't even watching this shit to begin with either

thats what I don't get when it comes to a lot of tv shows and films made by these people and for these people they are trying to pander to just like them. so why do these studios willingly throw away 100s of millions by hiring an ugly Mexican for snow white not a cute pale white girl. I get that they are politically motivated but don't share holders have the ability to force them to make money or have the ability to punish them for losses that could easily be avoided?

they have to know by now there are not 100s of millions of trannies and male woke liberal men rushing to theatres to support their latest virtue signal

>>212957908
tldr about the orange man and colbert

>>212963941
JIDF and MAGApedo apologists trying to redirect the Epstein conversation into Colbert nonsense. Lol we see you

>>212967176
And we see you

>>212957131
Fucking hilarious how much money is squandered by leftists every single year on absolutely zilch.

>>212957415
That's not true but I wish it were, I hate you leftists with every fiber of my being.

>>212966743
>throw away hundreds of millions
where do you think that money is spent?

>>212967289
Yes and you should pay more attention

>>212967289
lol cope EPSTEIN

>>212967899
All paid demoncrats paid by obama mone

>>212967176
>i've been found out
now watch them recoil

>>212967899
This is deja vu to when Shapiro's own audience ripped him to shreds over the insurance ceo thing and the MAGA cope was they were all undercover democrats. Lol

>>212967899
All bots

>>212966164
If you don't get that post, you don't belong here.

>>212958118
>brings conservatives up out of nowhere
Obsessed, rent free!

>>212957131
I’ve never seen commercials for the colbert show so that’s $15 million wasted

>>212957946
>Rule 4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules
Fuck off retard.

>>212967289
The lack of self awareness on plebbit is breathtaking.

literally nothing is stopping Colbert from going onto Bluesky or Twitter continuing to bitch about Trump, how are retards thinking this is censorship?

>>212956978 (OP)
How does what basically amounts to a podcast need to employ hundreds of people and cost hundreds of millions per year?

>>212967899
>Implying every single one of those posts isn't a bot

>>212956978 (OP)
>Over $20 mil for Colbert
>The house band probably gets paid pretty well
>An overly large team of union writers who recently got a raise
>Appearance fees
>General production costs for a 4K TV show with graphics

>>212960595
How does it take this many people to come up with absolute shit?

>>212967899
If you search his link you'll see the most updooted comment is telling them to do nothing. So no psyops to be found other than magats running damage control for their nonce king

>>212968966
that's a bot posting for plausible deniability

>>212956978 (OP)
20 million = salary for host
75 million = salary for staff of 200 (producers, writers, band, crew, assistants)
5 million = overhead in running a huge studio show

>>212960461
Union rules, I imagine

>>212969043
>Muh bot
>Muh obama

The derangement of the magat crowd has given TDS a new meaning

>>212957188
Do you know how much energy a 4000 sq foot studio uses?

>>212960595
looks photoshopped
guessing that most are work from home

>>212968966
>nonce
America isn't going to subsidize your nation's economy any longer Eurotrash

>>212959239
I'm not buying this for a second.
>>212959731
It's a required press tour as part of the signed contract she made with the studio. Wow this is inane.

>>212957188
>$30m for studio operation
>>212960857
> Colbert's show is the only thing shot at the Ed Sullivan Theater. That means every cost associated with operating (maintenance, property taxes,

This. It’s a Manhattan broadway theatre. Property taxes alone are at least $15m. All the other late shows (except for Kimmel) operate from tv studios just a fraction the size (maybe 30% of the audience seats). The Ed Sullivan was the carrot that sealed the deal for Letterman, back when late nite was kings and brought in the revenue.. it probably didn’t help that CBS spent millions on renovations when Colbert took it over.

Honestly they could all do the same thing on a small LA soundstage for a fraction of the cost and probably get more guests. Carson was a cheap production.

>>212961304
> start his own show

Conan tried, and it never hit the same levels. Huge amounts of flyover middle America still basically watch the old networks.

Just take a look at rating
https://www.nielsen.com/data-center/top-ten/#television

Conventional network produced TV still gets 4x the viewship of anything streaming, 25% more than cable. The watched programs are all syndication … jeopardy, wheel … which are network tv shown properties (almost all, ironically, a CBS division)

>>212960246
>how many do you possibly need
way more than you would think. You can't run a show at that level with say two camera dudes and then cancel if someone is sick. Also need control room operators and directors, all being paid way more that people think. Lawyers, legal fees, clearance department for copy right stiff. Props, stage hands, lighting, maintenance etc etc.
Just my shitty grocery store job is burning north of $1.5 million a year just on labor cost for over night freight. That's not supplies, health care, building power, AC/heating... Trash pick up, cardboard pick up. Yearly repairs on misc crap. I have no idea what that runs. Maybe couple 100k? That's just dry and frozen freight.
Then you gave product, deli, meat department and bakery people all rolling in before the store opens. It's millions in total and that's not even the day shift. I have no doubt the show easily cost nearly 100m.

>>212969082
>It takes 200 people to make something this bad
Lol

>>212969556
Kimmels show also costs between 1-2 Million per episode

>>212956978 (OP)

90% of the budget is maybe the salary of Stephen Colbert and 10% of the budget goes to the production of the show. And then Stephen Colbert donates half of his salary to Roman Catholic charity organization would be my guess.

>>212957131

Whoa, I am way off. Also, won't be long until AI reaches a level of consciousness where they actually become the rulers of humans.

>>212969727
it does, and they all need six-figure salaries to do it in New York

>>212961304
I could see MSNBC sweeping in and giving him a Gutfeld type show.

>>212957857
Do you retards not understand that linear TV is dying? No one is sitting down at any set time to watch a fucking talk show except boomers, like 90% of his audience was retirement age. Turn on any cable channel like MTV or Comedy Central, it's a ghost town of reruns all day every day. There won't be a CBS or NBC very soon, it's over.

>>212969903
lol

>>212970744
rest in piss

>>212961500
>Don’t they promote their book/movie at the end? Why would they be paid?
To ensure that promotion is done on their show, and not on the competitor's one, I suppose.

>>212961622
>StarWarsSperg is doing it for free
>Prajeet Kumar is doing coding for "goodjahb", green card and bowl of curry, why the fuck others demand being paid actual money?
Your logic.

Could the Late Night format still be viable if it was filmed in a much less expensive city in the midwest and with hosts that aren't paid as much as Colbert or Kimmel? If profitability is the only metric for success it should be pretty easy to recreate the format on a much lower budget. I doubt the people watching these actually give a shit about live bands or camera setups of more than two cameras.

>>212957188
>Studio operation 30M
Paramount Global has -.6bil net for 2024. Colbert makes tiny profit. instead of paying tax on that profit, pay 'rent' for Paramount owned Ed Sull. Theater at 30 mil. now the show is not profitable, no tax. that money goes to the parent company that is not currently profitable, no tax. legal tax dodge.
>Paramount Global annual net income for 2024 was $-6.19B, a 918.09% increase from 2023.
Paramount Global annual net income for 2023 was $-0.608B, a 155.07% decline from 2022.

>>212956978 (OP)
>here's that super rich person telling you about how bad rich people are I was talking about

>>212956978 (OP)
USAID

>>212957188
Rent

>>212956978 (OP)
$50 million per scoop per annum

>>212959863
Rebrand the show; CSI Colbert.

It died herel

>>212973666
Rock.

>>212957188
union grift

>>212957557
>Don’t you find it odd that after massive spending cuts on PBS and other media projects Colbert got canned?
No, because I’m sensible and don’t see every coincidence as evidence of a conspiracy.

>>212957569
You sound like the kind of person who is very opinionated about things they know nothing about and are bewildered by the complexity of the world around them and the production that goes into the products they consume.

>>212957044
>$80 Million is still a lot of fucking money.
Do they pay the guests? I don't get it...
Union regulations usually require the guests to be paid, although the payment is usually the minimum allowed.
That would not be the major expense though.
All the IATSE stage hands doing lighting, and electrical, etc., would be getting paid union rates, all the production people as well, some of whom would likely be pulling $250,000 at least a year, maybe more in New York or California.
The writers would also be pulling decent union rates, and there would probably be at least a dozen, with a few major earners.
Then you have costumes, makeup, set builders, probably live musicians, etc.
The theater and parking likely is leased to the production, which probably add a million dollars or more to the production budget.
Drivers or “limo rental” to transport guests.
Catering or food.
Airfare to fly guests in, who aren’t being flown in by other studios.
Hotel fees for guests or other people.
A non-profit theater in Philly I looked into once cost about $10,000,000 per year to run, and in that case, the theater was owned, so no rental fees, and most personnel were likely being paid way less than people in NYC, were most expenses are way higher.

>>212974049
Wrong, I don't consume globohomo slop and it shouldn't cost more than $100 to film that faggot pushing the vax

>>212968704
>4K TV show
kek. HDfags are a spiritually raped people. lossless 480p is all you need.

>>212956978 (OP)
>it's your last week tonight

>>212956978 (OP)
What surprised me was how they allowed the show to lose so much money before cancelling it.

Your kids and grandkids if you can afford to have them will have to rent apartments from Colbert's staff

>>212956978 (OP)
overpaying a unfunny faggot, a studio in an expensive size, two dozen writers, and the appearance fees for every celebrity who wastes their time showing up.

>>212957012

I thought it was 15. It was 4 before his contract was renegotiated.

>>212956978 (OP)
He was better on Strangers With Candy, other than that he didnt amuse me. Even when he was role playing as a right winger parody

>>212970081
And pay him with what? They are hemorrhaging money too

>>212957510

There are undoubtedly suspect accounting practices in showbiz, just like in many businesses, but these shows cost a lot of money to produce. Of course, you’ve got a host whose new contract gave him almost three times his initial salary but you’ve got writers, producers, equipment, maintenance for said equipment, rent and maintenance on the studio itself which is in one of the most expensive areas on Earth, etc. it adds up quickly.

>>212974380
>costumes
>set builders
>makeup
>etc
I understand they have all these people, but they won't need many of them: the set is already built and rarely experiences changes, the costumery is rarely more than Colbert's suit, there's not that many people on camera needing make-up, etc
If entire movies can be shot for 7 or low-8 figures then it strains credulity to think a late-night show costs $80 million a year merely on production costs: it's either Hollywood accounting or patronage or both

>>212975513
Possibly a tax dodge? Carry the losses over next year

>>212957234
>The assumption you make when somebody is paid $15mil+ a year is that they're good at their job
Kek, have you never heard of capitalism? The most useless person in every company is also very lilkely the highest paid.