A corporate decision to scrub Comedy Central‘s website of much of its content isn’t sitting well with a number of former and current Daily Show staffers.
The sites for Comedy Central and fellow Paramount-owned cable channels CMT, Paramount Network and TV Land, were largely stripped of content this week; what’s left mostly redirects users to the company’s streaming platform, Paramount+. The media conglomerate also shut down the MTV News site earlier this week.
Paramount, which is looking to cut half a billion dollars in costs amid declining profits, said the gutting of the sites was “part of broader website changes across” the company.
“We have introduced more streamlined versions of our sites, driving fans to Paramount+ to watch their favorite shows,” the company said in a statement.
Paramount+, however, only has the two most recent seasons of The Daily Show available for streaming. Comedy Central’s website previously hosted a huge archive of episodes and clips covering most of the show’s history (along with fellow late night shows @midnight, The Colbert Report, The Nightly Show and The Opposition With Jordan Klepper). That archive is now gone. Some material is on YouTube, but *The Daily Show’*s channel there, for instance, doesn’t have any material from before 2016.
“Gotta bring back the bootleg DVD man,” former Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. wrote on X. This shit ain’t right.” Doug Herzog, who headed Comedy Central when The Daily Show launched, reposted Wood’s statement in an Instagram Story and added a facepalm emoji to a screenshot of a news item about Paramount’s gutting of the website.
On social network Bluesky, Daily Show writer and producer Daniel Radosh noted that the show’s staff would regularly use the clip archive on the website: “Hey for extra fun guess what was the only way for people who still work at the show to find old clips that are important to have in the course of producing said show!” he wrote.
Tim Carvell, an executive producer of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and 10-year Daily Show veteran, took a shot at Paramount in a Bluesky post: “2002: ‘Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!’ 2024: ‘Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons.'”
My MTV TVE was still working until I updated to the latest Beta for Channels... I'm not sure why they removed all Paramount channels. It was definitely still available for me on both my Spectrum and Fubo TVE logins. @maddox can you all please add back MTV TVE?
Paramount is shutting down the watch lives from the website and pushing people over to provider services such as philo etc.
Even less value for remaining cable subscribers... TV really is doing a bang-up job of killing its own industry. Wild to witness.
may I humbly suggest to the developers... like what happened with NBC.. leave? allow channels, such that one could add custom channel that would show in grid but when clicked opens the paramout+ app (akin to the NBC app opening and watching my CNBC each morning but starting with channels and selecting CNBC channel)?????? please???
Yes we have that. Stream Links in Custom Channels.
Can you explain, how we can setup so that we can stay on the guide but launch Philo or Paramount etc...
We are seeing more and more erosion of ChapterDVR value.
I am a big fan of the ADBtuner project you will find on one of the forums here. I have a couple of tuners that Channels controls to record from Sling. Works great. With the official and non-official user projects I've got Channels recording Sling, Frndly, OTA, some TVE, plus Pluto, Roku channel, etc.
Would not say the value of Channels DVR is going away. We all just have to adapt as things change.
The value in Channels has ben kicking right along. I love the way you can add all these non-official supported projects and watch some good tv.
I have ADBTuner and Fubo project setup.
I keep Fubo just becuase of channels and the ability to get clean feeds of the locals and paramount stuff. If i were to cut costs, i would probably move to YTTV and use the setup but i don't like not having HlS streams of local channels.
Yes, this.
Amidst such turmoil in the media landscape now with so many different streaming sources, all competing for our attention on our TVs and home screens, one might even say with its adaptability, flexibility and customizability... we are seeing more and more increase of Channels DVR value.
Does YTTV not have your locals? I have mine set up as a fallback through ADBTuner.
The only way iwould even begin to think about YTTV at all would be if there was a setup that operates like Fubo to where we don't need their silly app.
don't care about video recordings of their system just give me signal and let me do what i want.
in this case use our totally nice Channels DVR.
My name is Hattie Goldade and I need internet please please please help
This is a Community forum for Channels DVR and clients.
How (and why) did you post here if you don't have Internet access?
Basically nothing coming in over TVE from Xfinity now, mostly only channels I had filtered out anyway.
Unfortunately, TVE is going away.
I've already moved on to another solution.
What would another solution be? Say for someone who is not very technological inclined.
Some discussion here: