CBS Announces a Generation Shift in Late-Night Comedy... “The Late Show” Heads Out, and Byron Allen’s “Comics Unleashed” Arrives
“The Late Show” Ends on May 21... Starting the Next Day, “Comics Unleashed” and “Funny You Should Ask” Are Scheduled Immediately
Byron Allen Buys CBS’s Time Slot and Sells Ads Directly... A Strategy to Strengthen Network Profitability
Allen Media Group Chairman “The Platform We Founded 20 Years Ago Will Take Charge of Laughter in Late-Night Hours”
With the end of CBS’s flagship late-night talk show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the U. S. broadcast network CBS has declared the start of a new era in late-night entertainment. ■ First broadcast on May 22. . .
