For context... Stewart has been by far the highest paid late night host for a while - he makes a reported $25-30M/year ( http://www.businessinsider.com/jon-stewart-the-daily-show-show-salary-2015-2). Colbert reportedly signed at CBS for $4.5M/year for three years (though I suspect that will get renegotiated up significantly closer to the $10M range of other two network late night hosts after a year or two if he delivers ratings comparable to Dave).
It would probably take something close to that neighborhood to get some of the higher profile names being bandied about, assuming they were interested (e.g. Fey). OTOH, a younger, less well known but high potential name could be had for something in the $2-3M range. This would probably make CC more profit (10% the cost at maybe 60% of the ratings), but would shrink their cultural footprint considerably, and really screw Wilmore.. I continue to believe that CC will go in the lower cost, lower profile direction, and that TDS will continue to be profitable for them, but will be nothing like what it has been (and more like what it used to be). Yes, it is possible that they will get a lesser known host who will prove to have a real talent for news satire, but that seems very unlikely, and one of the big, expensive names is too much of a risk. If CC plays small ball (or, at least, smaller ball) they have a much bigger chance of making money. And the trend in late night TV is definitely away from investing big bucks in talent - with Dave and Stewart gone, nobody will be making more than $12M/year (Coco at $12M, Fallon at $11M, and Kimmel and Handler at $10M). -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
