Television

There is less of a business case for late night.

There's been an across-the-board decline in advertisement spending nationally. A lot of media is effectively operating as a loss-leader for the tech sector, which is why you see so many dogshit Op-Eds and bizarre headline beats pumping MAG7 and their affiliates in the face of huge economic headwinds.

What they did do earlier was decide not to fill the post-Colbert slot when their previous show ended, signalling a general move away from late-night.

There's some speculation that they purchased South Park with the intention of filling the Late Night slot with a much cheaper form of animated comedy. In some sense, its two-birds and one-stone. Get rid of an expensive live action comedy performance to appease the dictator's FCC Chairman. Then line up a show so far over-the-top critical of Trump that you can't reasonably be accused of pro-Trump bias, but that doesn't go live until after the mid-terms.

Play both ends against the middle. Then slop-ify your network with AI generated Skydance action movies for the MAGA folks and discount dipshit fart-comedy for the apathetic liberals.