[RD] Charlie Kirk assassinated

[amadeus]

I heard an NPR report on teh radio the other day that said all the late night guys generate tens of millions of dollars of profit to their networks. Live, late night viewership may be low, but when you add in prerecorded viewing and streaming and clips, there is plenty of money slowing in.

I suppose NPR is a more authoritative source than I, but I just don’t see how each of the networks can shell out $15m a year for talent when Carson was pulling in millions and he dominated late night.

I don’t know how much the clips bring in, and if they’re kind of a loss leader to bring others in to network viewership, but to my untrained eye it just looks like the format needs a shakeup to really improve network performance. I’d say this across the board that network TV to me, at least in prime time, just doesn’t seem all that good. Then again, I’m a TV dinosaur.