samurai_science said:

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EFR said:

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How do you equate "ratings in the tank" and the fact that his show is number 1 in its time slot?

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Theres always a tall man in the midget show.

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And Gutfeld beats all three.

On the plus side, the catfights between Talarico and Jazzy should be more entertaining from now on.

$2.5 million and most of it out of state money. That should be as illegal as foreign money.

Though, admittedly, I have no idea how that could be enforced.

EFR said:

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How do you equate "ratings in the tank" and the fact that his show is number 1 in its time slot?

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Where can we see the numbers?

BusterAg said:

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Im Gipper said:

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I agree it was a brilliant move to increase the viewership, but one question.

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No one gives a crap about Colbert. His ratings are in the tank, and he is on his way out. If he had aired the interview on the show no one would have seen it.

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Are you saying the FCC would not have actually looked into this?

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I doubt it.

When was the last time the FCC enforced equal time laws?

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About 2 weeks ago when Talarico was on the view

Do they care if they are being played?

Teslag said:

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shiftyandquick said:

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Talarico has raised 2.5 million since the cancellation.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/18/us-news/texas-dem-senate-candidate-james-talarico-rakes-in-2-5m-after-stephen-colbert-interview-nixed-from-late-show-air/

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If only Beto and Allred had decent funding

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Well done.

shiftyandquick said:

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Talarico has raised 2.5 million since the cancellation.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/18/us-news/texas-dem-senate-candidate-james-talarico-rakes-in-2-5m-after-stephen-colbert-interview-nixed-from-late-show-air/

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It was a stunt.

OldArmy71 said:

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Talarico is very slick. He worries me. I said months ago that he was getting favorable nods from a number of people in my Facebook crowd. (I am old. I do Facebook.)

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Tell them he lied on The View about missing 800+ votes because of breaking quorum and he went out of state. If they still don't get it, tell them not making a quorum means no voting will take place. He didn't vote 800+ times while in the Texas Legislature.

He lies...

Oh, he's a slime.

The problem is he looks and talks like Obama. I just can't stand the holier-than-thou "Jesus would let in all these millions of illegals and you're a terrible racist if you don't agree" crap.

I just can't stand him.

Even as a CM with TDS.


This **** was staged. Fake as hell.

OldArmy71 said:

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Oh, he's a slime.

The problem is he looks and talks like Obama. I just can't stand the holier-than-thou "Jesus would let in all these millions of illegals and you're a terrible racist if you don't agree" crap.

I just can't stand him.

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Someone should ask him if Jesus would be a politician.

Stephen Colbert is a literal piece of lying *****

Heard my first radio ad for Jasmine....it made me LOL IRL.

Just as a little fun experiment to test ChatGPT ideologically I asked:

Are there any better uses for the television broadcast spectrum in the U.S. than broadcasting Stephen Colbert's late night show?

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Yeahif your goal is "maximize public value per MHz," there are a bunch of plausible uses that beat piping The Late Show with Stephen Colbert over the air (because that particular kind of content is already perfectly happy on cable + streaming).

A useful way to frame it: broadcast TV spectrum is scarce, very "good" spectrum (great propagation), and extremely efficient for one-to-many delivery. So the best alternative uses usually fall into either (a) mobile broadband capacity or (b) broadcasting data that benefits from one-to-many.

1) More mobile broadband (sell/repurpose more TV spectrum)
The most obvious "better use" in pure economic terms is reallocating additional TV-band spectrum to licensed wireless (4G/5G/whatever comes next). The U.S. already did a major version of this with the "incentive auction," shifting a big chunk of UHF TV spectrum into the 600 MHz band for wireless (and some unlicensed). (FCC)

Why it's compelling: low-band spectrum covers large areas and penetrates buildings wellespecially valuable for wide-area coverage and rural service.

Catch: every extra MHz you pull from broadcast has real costsrepacking stations, reducing OTA capacity, and risking coverage gaps for people who rely on free over-the-air TV.
2) Expand "TV white spaces" for rural broadband + IoT
Another strong candidate is scaling unlicensed "white space" use: devices can operate on unused TV channels in a given area, with rules coordinated through databases. (FCC)

Why it's compelling: great propagation + unlicensed access can be a real tool for rural/low-density connectivity, farms, sensors, and community networks.

Catch: capacity is limited and location-dependent (because it only uses unused channels), and it has to be carefully managed to avoid interference.

3) Use broadcast as a "data megaphone" (ATSC 3.0 datacasting)
If we keep the spectrum broadcast, the best argument is: stop thinking "TV shows," start thinking IP data at scalesoftware/security updates, maps, emergency info, distance learning payloads, etc. That's one of the big promises of NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) being an IP-based system, with stations allowed to deploy it voluntarily under FCC rules (with simulcasting requirements in many cases). (Federal Register)

Why it's compelling: broadcast is insanely efficient when millions need the same bits at once (think: emergency messaging, or pushing the same update to every device in a metro).

Catch (important): there's active controversy about encryption/DRM governance in ATSC 3.0 and what it could mean for open reception and consumer devices. (Public Knowledge)
4) Emergency communications resilience (keep OTA, but prioritize "public good")
Broadcast infrastructure can keep working when cellular networks are congested or damaged, and it reaches everyone without a subscription. So a "better use" within broadcasting is leaning hard into robust emergency alerts + multilingual/localized info + redundancyespecially paired with ATSC 3.0 capabilities. (Federal Register)

Why it's compelling: it's one of the few truly universal, one-to-many pipes.

Catch: it requires policy and industry choices that treat OTA as critical infrastructure, not just entertainment distribution.

5) Public-safety broadband (adjacent concept; not the same band)
Not exactly "TV spectrum," but in the same low-band neighborhood: the U.S. has dedicated 700 MHz public-safety allocations used for FirstNet / Band 14-type services. (FCC)

Why it matters here: it's a real-world example of "we can reserve prime spectrum for public safety" when we decide it's worth it.

6) "Do nothing drastic" and just move late-night to streaming/cable
This is the quiet answer: you don't need to "reform spectrum policy" to stop using broadcast spectrum for late-night. Networks could simply allocate OTA capacity to higher-public-value local content (news, weather, civic programming, educational blocks) and push comedy/talk more heavily to streaming/cablewithout changing the band plan at all.

My honest take
If your question is basically "should we spend prime RF spectrum on something that could be a YouTube upload?", then the best spectrum uses are either:

• licensed mobile broadband (biggest economic return), or
• broadcast-as-data (biggest "one-to-many public utility" return), especially for emergencies and large-scale datacasting. (FCC)

If you tell me what you mean by "better" (economic value, emergency resilience, rural connectivity, innovation, or speech/localism), I can rank the options accordingly.

• TV Tech
• TV Tech
• TV Tech

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shiftyandquick said:

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Keller6Ag91 said:

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shiftyandquick said:

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Talarico has raised 2.5 million since the cancellation.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/18/us-news/texas-dem-senate-candidate-james-talarico-rakes-in-2-5m-after-stephen-colbert-interview-nixed-from-late-show-air/

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He'll get smoked.

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I know you MAGAs think that MAGA-ism is wildly popular.

Everyone else can read the tea leaves.

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What does this have to do with Maga? They pulled it bc of the democrat primary.

Besides, you think Cornyn and Paxton are NAFA? Haha.

shiftyandquick said:

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5.8 million views and counting.

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A fraction of these are Texas voters.

I hope that:

Tallywackerico lies and says that the FCC told the network not to air his interview, implicates Trump, and Trump sues Tallywackerico for defamation. Get out in front of that liar.

If The Late Show gets all defensive and says that the only reason they did it was because they didn't want to have Crockett on the show, Tallywackerico and The Late Show both look incredibly racist. Even if he gets the nod, he loses the general when half of black population that normally votes decides to stay home as opposed to pulling the lever for that lilly-white, race-baiting walking piece of fraud.

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shiftyandquick said:

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5.8 million views and counting.

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A fraction of these are Texas voters.

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Allegedly he got about $2.5MM bump on donations because of this. How much of that money do you think came from in-state?

Probably not much

byfLuger41 said:

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Been lurking on this group for three weeks now. If yall want a good laugh then definitely jump in…I t's pretty hilarious!

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Oh, what a surprise. A middle aged white woman, with crazy eyes and a Karen cut, and a tsip voting for a dumbass. I can't believe it.

BTKAG97 said:

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$2.5 million and most of it out of state money. That should be as illegal as foreign money.

Though, admittedly, I have no idea how that could be enforced.

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maybe not enforce it but force there to be full disclosure as part of verbiage in the ads. All ads - both sides

Talarico made a comment that it is our works that will save us. Nope. Don't need to hear anything else.

Colbert is probably trying to establish more online presence for when he starts his own left-wing podcast... Not sure what else he'd do after he get's sh**-canned.

It's wild that the MSM and DNC are circling the wagons against a black woman, Jasmine Crocket.

I'm suddenly rooting for that crazy B to be a thorn in their side.

GeorgiAg said:

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Even as a CM with TDS.


This **** was staged. Fake as hell.

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It was a hit on Crockett by the Democrat party. We all know why, but the next question should be why would black people accept their party's hit job on black politicians. Blacks have already been thrown to the curb for illegals and now this?

The Collective said:

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Talarico made a comment that it is our works that will save us. Nope. Don't need to hear anything else.

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It is a flawed/tainted view of Christianity.

Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's

Jesus taught us how we, as individuals, should live. It was not proposed as a system of government.

Turn the other cheek with Iran, China, etc... and let's see how that turns out.

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GeorgiAg said:

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Even as a CM with TDS.


This **** was staged. Fake as hell.

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It was a hit on Crockett by the Democrat party. We all know why, but the next question should be why would black people accept their party's hit job on black politicians. Blacks have already been thrown to the curb for illegals and now this?

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I don't know about you, but the older I get, the more black people I meet are just like most whites. Hard working, Christian, good folks, sick of taxes, etc...



Microsoft, uh, no. That is not better. (Laughing emoji for that)

The Collective said:

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Talarico made a comment that it is our works that will save us. Nope. Don't need to hear anything else.

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Can you point me to this please? I searched but was unable to find it.

There's a lot of scrubbing going on with this guy. I watched a clip of him too talking about how Christ isn't necessarily the only path to salvation and there's validity to all religions. Now gone and can't find it anywhere.

His comments that his "progressive church" has a different Bible and Jesus.

That's a big NO from me Dog.

Personally, when I look at him, I see the anti-Christ.

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GeorgiAg said:

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Even as a CM with TDS.


This **** was staged. Fake as hell.

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It was a hit on Crockett by the Democrat party. We all know why, but the next question should be why would black people accept their party's hit job on black politicians. Blacks have already been thrown to the curb for illegals and now this?

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I don't know about you, but the older I get, the more black people I meet are just like most whites. Hard working, Christian, good folks, sick of taxes, etc...



Microsoft, uh, no. That is not better. (Laughing emoji for that)

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Que??? If I was a black Democrat I'd be wondering why this is happening. Why did the Democrat party order a hit on Crockett? Why was the other candidate not given an opportunity to come on the same show? That's all I'm saying. Obviously, black republicans have know this for a while. The party made a strategic decision. They have already made a decision to import illegals and immigrants for electoral power.

austinAG90 said:

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His comments that his "progressive church" has a different Bible and Jesus.

That's a big NO from me Dog.

Personally, when I look at him, I see the anti-Christ.

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can you post where you heard this? Not because I don't believe you, but because I want to be able to point others to it. Someone needs to put together a full list of all the nonsense he is putting out there. I'm just getting started in really learning about him, but I haven't seen a full rollup - a piece here, a piece there, probably by design.

Silent For Too Long said:

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It's wild that the MSM and DNC are circling the wagons against a black woman, Jasmine Crocket.

I'm suddenly rooting for that crazy B to be a thorn in their side.

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The thorns will be her voters. They won't vote for him. The Allred comments were terrible enough, but now this. The Dems know what they're trying to do here, but weren't expected to get called to the carpet on it.

Teslag said:

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There's a lot of scrubbing going on with this guy. I watched a clip of him too talking about how Christ isn't necessarily the only path to salvation and there's validity to all religions. Now gone and can't find it anywhere.

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All good. I'll dig further. It has to be out there somewhere.