a Comedy of errors?!....Paramount also shuts down Comedy Central website & TVLand.....

[NewtonMP2100]

......so all the clips of 'The Daily Show' & 'The Colbert Report' etc gone.....


......they also shut down TVLand.com.....


Comedy Central Website Shuttered, Decades of Daily Show and Colbert Report Clips Gone in a Blink

....And now for your moment of the-opposite-of-zen…

Paramount has effectively shut down its Comedy Central website. Prior to this week, ComedyCentral.com had been home to a repository of clips that included video from every episode of The Daily Show since 1999 and all of The Colbert Report.

Also included in the purge: snippets from and episodes of @midnight, The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore and The Opposition With Jordan Klepper.

Latenighter.com first reported the site’s gutting. TVLine has reached out to Paramount for comment.

The site’s shutdown follows that of two other Paramount-owned properties: MTV.com (including its in-depth MTV News archives) and CMT.com. While all of the domains remain active, a pop-up notice on each homepage lets readers know that “while most episodes of [insert channel here] series are no longer available on this website, you can watch [insert channel here] through your TV provider. You can also sign up for Paramount+ to watch many seasons of [insert channel here] shows.”

Much of the content housed on the now-dark sites, however, is not currently available on Paramount+......


...........Paramount shuts down another.....channel website..........?!

[timg]

attempted money grab.

[gabester]

Soon to have all of the video clips paywalled behind Paramount+ no doubt, in an attempt to bring their streaming service to profitability.

The problem with capitalism is that it inevitably tries to monetize everything to the maximum extent, and that inevitably squeezes us into a "poverty of the commons" where there's nothing we all can share because we're balkanized into a different markets.

[sekker]

gabester wrote:
Soon to have all of the video clips paywalled behind Paramount+ no doubt, in an attempt to bring their streaming service to profitability.

The problem with capitalism is that it inevitably tries to monetize everything to the maximum extent, and that inevitably squeezes us into a "poverty of the commons" where there's nothing we all can share because we're balkanized into a different markets.

In their defense, the ability to monetize from ads visiting their website was probably poor.

Would have been better to just post on YouTube.

[Acer]

I'm not sure what durable subscription income you can draw from hyper-topical comedy and commentary from a decade or two ago.