Colby Hall, lots to talk about as it relates to media and especially, well, not just cable, but broadcast.

Let's start with, we'll get to CNN and the whole podcast thing.

But let's get, let's talk about CBS because the ratings at CBS, according to CBS News

concern, they're going to be layoffs, right?

So this is from MediaE, this is a tough message to receive at any time.

And then over on the status, it talks about that they have these ratings wipe out,

that they're plummeting ratings. So it seems like Barry Weiss, I guess at the Ellison's instructions,

is just killing the network because you can be as right wing as you want, but if no one's

watching, what does it matter? Yeah, it's not working for Barry at this moment. And, you know, in fairness, in full

context, ratings haven't been going up as a trend for broadcast news for a long time. And it's

still early in her iteration.

But, you know, at the end of the day, ratings don't lie.

Like, you want a quick temperature tech of what you're doing on TV is working and not working.

The numbers tell you the story.

And, you know, maybe it's early into that iteration.

But, you know, I think this sort of effort to make this sort of like more sort of right wing or Trump-friendly iteration, it got the FCC to approve the deal, but the public, the timing is wrong because right now Trump's approval ratings

are also in the toilet.

So, you know, the pivot to try to be more like Fox News Light or more sort of, you know,

conservative adjacent, the timing is way off because most people are really frustrated and down

on Trump and it's not working. It's not working at all. Now, I think Oliver's report here on status

is really tough and Oliver loves to take shots at Barry. But I think Barry kind of has her,

like she has an arrogance problem.

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