Trevor Noah on his last episode of ‘The Day by day Present’
Matt Wilson/Comedy Central’s The Day by day Present with Trevor Noah
Following the sudden shuttering of the MTV Information web site earlier this week, Paramount has now largely cleaned home on the websites for a number of extra of its cable channels, in a possible cost-cutting transfer.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the websites for Comedy Central, CMT, Yellowstone airer Paramount Community and TV Land had been as an alternative directing customers to the media conglomerate’s streaming platform Paramount+. On Monday, MTVnews.com was taken down, purging some 20 years of tales from the net.
A pop-up window on the Comedy Central website reads, “Whereas episodes of most Comedy Central sequence are now not out there on this web site, you’ll be able to watch Comedy Central by your TV supplier. You can even join Paramount+ to observe many seasons of Comedy Central reveals.” Comparable language reveals up on the CMT, Paramount Community and TV Land websites, in addition to that of MTV (which was separate from MTVnews.com).
Paramount stated in an announcement, “As a part of broader web site modifications throughout Paramount, we now have launched extra streamlined variations of our websites, driving followers to Paramount+ to observe their favourite reveals.”
As famous by LateNighter, the cleansing out of the Comedy Central website particularly wipes out an enormous trove of archival materials from The Day by day Present and different late-night sequence, together with clips from South Park, Key & Peele and Workaholics, amongst many others. A few of that materials is out there on YouTube, nevertheless it’s not as simply searchable or accessible because it was on the community web page. (The oldest video on the Day by day Present YouTube channel, as an illustration, is from 2016, whereas the present’s historical past stretches again 20 years earlier than then.)
On Paramount+, solely the 2 most up-to-date seasons of The Day by day Present can be found. The platform has a number of South Park specials and the 1999 function movie Larger, Longer and Uncut, however the present’s major streaming house is on Max. Paramount+ does have the total runs of Key & Peele and Workaholics.
As of publication time, websites for Paramount’s BET, Nickelodeon and VH1 had been nonetheless lively, whereas MTV.com supplied some episodes and clips.
The web site modifications come on the heels of Paramount’s co-CEOs — George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins — telling staff at a city corridor assembly Tuesday that they had been embarking on a cost-cutting mission as income have dropped for the corporate. Paramount is in search of $500 million in decreased prices, which is able to imply layoffs for some staff. Cheeks additionally stated on the city corridor that “We’re promoting sure Paramount-owned belongings — actually, we’ve already employed bankers to help us on this course of — and we’ll use the proceeds to assist pay down debt and strengthen our stability sheet.”