{"id":162996,"date":"2025-07-21T08:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=162996"},"modified":"2025-07-21T08:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:18:26","slug":"did-money-or-politics-cause-colbert-cancellation-either-way-the-economics-are-tough-for-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=162996","title":{"rendered":"Did money or politics cause Colbert cancellation? Either way, the economics are tough for TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS says its decision to end Stephen Colbert\u2019s late-night comedy show is financial, not political. Yet even with the ample skepticism about that explanation, there\u2019s no denying the economics were not working in Colbert\u2019s favour. The network\u2019s bombshell announcement late Thursday that the \u201cLate Show\u201d will end next May takes away President Donald Trump\u2019s most [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/entertainment\/television\/did-money-or-politics-cause-colbert-cancellation-either-way-the-economics-are-tough-for-tv\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS says its decision to end Stephen Colbert\u2019s late-night comedy show is financial, not political.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}