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Transfer comes after Paramount World pulled the archives of MTV Information and CMT offline
The huge repository of content material on Comedy Central‘s web site — relationship again 25 years — has been eliminated by dad or mum firm Paramount World, in a transfer to push followers to Paramount+.
The positioning, at comedycentral.com, has till now hosted clips from all episodes of “The Day by day Present” since 1999, in addition to segments from the total 11-season run of Stephen Colbert’s “The Colbert Report,” amongst different video content material. Hundreds of “Day by day Present” clips stay free to look at on YouTube, however these return solely to 2015.
The transfer to wash content material from Comedy Central comes after Paramount equally pulled the total archive of MTV Information from the web on Monday, in addition to articles from CMT.
As of Wednesday, Comedy Central’s archived materials has vanished from its web site. A discover on the location says, “Whereas episodes of most Comedy Central sequence are not obtainable on this web site, you possibly can watch Comedy Central by means of your TV supplier. You may as well join Paramount+ to look at many seasons of Comedy Central exhibits.”
In a press release supplied to Selection, a Paramount World rep mentioned, “As a part of broader web site adjustments throughout Paramount, we now have launched extra streamlined variations of our websites, driving followers to Paramount+ to look at their favourite exhibits.”
Whereas the Comedy Central website directs followers to Paramount+ to seek out programming, many older episodes of “The Day by day Present” and “The Colbert Report” are unavailable on the streamer, as reported by LateNighter. Additionally gone from comedycentral.com are clips and full episodes of sequence together with “The Opposition With Jordan Klepper,” “The Nightly Present With Larry Wilmore,” “@midnight,” hosted by Chris Hardwick, and “Lights Out With David Spade,” in response to LateNighter.
Paramount World has been in monetary straits, going through declining income in its conventional TV enterprise as Paramount+ — whereas rising quickly — stays within the pink. After M&A talks with Skydance Media collapsed earlier this month, Paramount World’s three co-CEOs outlined a method of job cuts, potential asset gross sales to repay debt, and a potential three way partnership for its streaming enterprise.