Late-night TV’s Decline and the Vanishing Cultural Middle
As viewership plummets and ad revenue halves, late-night TV faces extinction while YouTube and podcasts capture the audience it lost.
Conan O’Brien reflected on the slow decline of late-night talk shows seven years ago, stating that the long-standing formula of a nightly monologue followed by a carousel of guests on the promotional circuit
“doesn’t make sense anymore”.
Since then, the evidence has only piled up, as audiences increasingly consume comedy in short bursts on their phones.
Author’s summary: Late-night TV declines.
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