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Yeah, they could have. However, saying to do the entire show for with profit for $15 million a year would have likely been an insultingly low offer to Colbert.
They wouldn't pay Colbert. It would be the same deal they allowed Allen.
Colbert would "buy" the time slot for $15m a year and keep all profit (if any).
They would be paying the company that Colbert made to make the show, since Colbert would likely be a producer or have control over the producers.
And, as I said earlier, the end compensation to Colbert would likely be insultingly low.
As was explained to me earlier in the thread, CBS isn't paying Byron Allen anything. Byron is paying them $15m to own that block of time.
So CBS could have given the same offer to Colbert. Instead of it being the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, it would have become Stephen Colbert's Late Show. He would own the show and therefore own all profit from it. Buying a business isn't an insult.
Had CBS allowed Colbert to buy it, he could have turned it down and CBS would have looked good. Or he could have taken the deal like Allen did knowing it was worth more than the $40M loss that CBS claimed.
But CBS didn't give him a choice because Colbert might have taken the deal. Trump wanted Colbert off the air.
I don't think CBS letting Colbert stay on for $15 million to produce the show would have been seen as anything other than firing Colbert.
They didn't give him the same business opportunity as Allen.
Why are you so fixated on CBS not giving Colbert a deal he wouldn't have accepted?
Because the fact that they didn't offer him a chance to own The Late Show means all of CBS's press releases are a lie. Trump wanted Colbert gone and CBS made it happen.