Yep. They will lose viewers to ABC and NBC (and other programming) that will have no reason to return to CBS in a year.
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Byron Allen gets the Colbert timeslot
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So they're aren't selling the ES theater quite yet?
Kimmel's current contract is only for a year
Sort of like Kimmel no longer being the long term solution for ABC with his one year deal.CBS says Byron Allen isn't the long term solution for late night. It's a one year deal. They're still interested in other ideas:
CBS Says It Will Develop New Late Night Concepts After Axing Stephen Colbert, but ‘Immediate Profitability’ Is the Focus With New Byron Allen Deal
Paramount TV Media chairman George Cheeks says late night is still a work in progress at the network. The Eye did a one-year deal with Byron Allen to air his “Comics Unleashed” at 11:35 p.m. as a time...www.yahoo.com
CBS is going to keep its options open. No reason for them not to. It's not as if Allen as any leverage. CBS gets inexpensive content, Allen gets exposure. Success for this will be relative.
I never knew it was controversial. I watched it and liked it.
RE Kimmel: At this point he can stay for as long as he wants and ABC will be happy to go along with that. We'll see what happens once Jimmy decides that the next renewal will be his last.
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FWIW Disney also owns the theater where Jimmy does his show. However, Disney is in the property business, so they're not looking to give up the place any time soon. Unlike the folks at CBS. Ironically the theater was once known as the Hollywood Paramount Theater. Then renamed El Capitan.
In the 30's and 40's, the networks all took fully sponsored shows produced by advertisers and their ad agencies. But they watched them carefully and cancelled those that did not perform
Mike Joseph was a consultant, no different than Bill Drake or others. Stations hired him to guide local staffs and to implement formats. But CBS or Mike's other clients did not "hand over" their stations to him. And when Hot Hits burnt out... at the time when agencies quit looking at teen numbers... the deal was cancelled.
"Jack" is a syndicated format. One size fits all in smaller markets, a jointly implemented format in larger ones. Again, the stations had/have the last say on content, promotions, imaging, etc.
Looking it up might be easier if you spelled her first name Diahann.
I don't normally do this on this site but @TheBigA wrote in part:
"In the 70s, CBS turned over the programming of its O&O radio stations to Mike Joseph's Hot Hits format."
This is patently false. First, Mike Josephs' "Hot Hits" format was a product of the early 1980s, not of the 1970s. Second, with the exceptions of the 96.3 frequency in Chicago, the 98.1 frequency in Philadelphia (which was an early adopter of the Mike Josephs format), and the 93.1 ffrequency in Los Angeles (which, as far as I know, wasn't using the Mike Josephs package though it was top-40 for two years between 1983 and 1985), none of the CBS O&O's ever were top 40 during the 1970s.
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Correct. I remember Boston's WEEI-FM going Hot Hits with a new call of WHTT in 1983. It had been a soft rock station since 1977.
I had forgotten about the CBS O&O stations in Boston. Thanks for the reminder.
I was wondering if this was the same Allen from "Real People." Back ten years or so ago, his "Real People" co-host (and show creator) John Barbour launched into a scathing rant about Allen on "Coast to Coast AM." His libelous accusations against Allen were such that host Noory dropped Barbour as a guest mid-show/mid sentence and banned him from future C2C shows. Word was that show was removed from the C2C's library of previous shows for members.
Would be interesting to hear Allen's side of that story.
It's an unusual spelling and wouldn't immediately come to mind unless one remembered it from the 1970s and had a sharp eye for detail. It sounds the same.
Byron Allen was 18 years old when Real People debuted on NBC, and 23 when the show ended.
What did he say about Byron?
It's NOT "patently false." Here's what Mike Joseph's own page says about Hot Hits:
"Nobody's ever heard of a format like this, people tell me. Other consultants used to laugh at our Top 40 stations, but now we have the hottest hits in the world!"
Don't recall specific verbiage, but he very vocally and angrily challenged Allen's intelligence and integrity. The particular episode was in the fall of 2016, either the same night as or shortly after one of the Trump v. Clinton debates, so probably Sept/Oct 2016. One of the more entertaining nights listening to C2C.