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How much could it possibly have been costing them to leave old clips up? I suspect the really old stuff was pretty low traffic, file storage is ridiculously cheap, how much money could this realistically save them?

I'm sure it's not "zero" but I think I'm missing something...is it copyright savings or something?

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You’re missing that they want you to subscribe to Paramount Plus, so they’re going to have all of their content there, where you pay them. They mention it in the press release.

Their company IS paramount plus now. It’s all going there.

"You’re missing that they want you to subscribe to Paramount Plus, so they’re going to have all of their content there"

Most of the comments here seem to have missed that, if true. I did not read the article, the headline implies otherwise, but that surely can be clickbait.

Partially

>Unfortunately for those in search of older episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, neither can be found on Paramount+.

It's not true, the article itself said it wasn't true. I posted a partial list above of entire shows/seasons that cannot be viewed on Paramount Plus.

Verb tenses are not hard. I said all their content is going to be there, not that it is already.

They are betting the company on people paying for paramount plus, it would make no sense for them to have free content anywhere else. They’re moving it all now.

> Verb tenses are not hard.

Don't be obnoxious. Paramount Plus already culled content in 2023 per the link I gave, they have given no expectation they will make all their back catalog available. Likely they will make more of it available, but not all like you are predicting.

I don’t know, streaming services seem to love putting up the back catalogue. I think they’ll put up most of it.

But what’s important is they’re all in on Paramount Plus. They won’t have content outside of that, and why should they?

Obnoxious is ignoring verb tenses and responding to something someone didn’t say multiple times.

Not according to the article: "Unfortunately for those in search of older episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, neither can be found on Paramount+."

It's a real shame too because I might actually be tempted to at least burn a free trial of that service if they had The Colbert Report

And you're missing

>Unfortunately for those in search of older episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, neither can be found on Paramount+.

And you’re missing verb tenses.

What makes you believe they will put all seasons on Paramount+?

>You can also sign up for Paramount+ to watch many seasons of Comedy Central shows.

In only states you can watch many seasons and no mention it would be all in the future.

Oh boy, that's suicide. Instead of cutting their losses, they're doubling down on failure. I can't see this ending well for the rest of their IP.

I don’t know. It seems pretty clear the other methods of content delivery are going to be consumed entirely. If you’re a company that makes TV, I don’t see another choice.

At the end of the day they’ll all merge into a few streaming services but they cannot afford to sit it out.

No, "all their content" is not available on Paramount Plus, much of it isn't [0], at least the good old stuff:

- for example, they only have two seasons of The Daily Show (S28, S29) https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-daily-show/ . Reportedly they don't have the Colbert Show at all(!)

- here's a list of 21 Paramount Plus shows that were disappeared 6/2023: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/21-paramount-plus-shows-just-...

- Quora: Why doesn’t Paramount Plus have all the seasons to all of their shows? https://www.quora.com/Why-doesn-t-Paramount-Plus-have-all-th...

[0]: "25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone as Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site" https://latenighter.com/news/paramount-axes-comedy-central-w...

I used the future tense.

Not much, but they'll benefit much more in the short term in reduced taxes by writing down those assets to zero.

Edit: this was downvoted, and I don't understand why. Am I wrong in thinking this action was made in pursuit of a write down? FWIW, this wasn't a thoughtless comment by a random Internet passerby; I hold 41,905 shares of PARA.

The question is rather how much profit do they make b leaving it up. Most likely 0 or less. Capitalism says shut it down now.

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