Paramount Cuts Nearly All Content on MTV, CMT, Comedy Central and TV Land Websites

As of Wednesday afternoon, the sites for Comedy Central, CMT, Yellowstone airer Paramount Network and TV Land were instead directing users to the media conglomerates streaming platform Paramount+. On Monday, MTV.com was taken down, purging some 20 years of stories from the web. A popup window on the Comedy Central site reads, While episodes of most Comedy Central series are no longer available on this website, you can watch Comedy Central through your TV provider. You can also for Paramount+ to watch many seasons of Comedy Central shows. Similar language shows up on the CMT, Paramount Network and TV Land sites, as well as that of MTV (which was separate from MTV.com). Trending on Billboard aramount said in a statement, As part of broader website changes across Paramount, we have introduced more streamlined versions of our sites, driving fans to Paramount+ to watch their favorite shows. As noted by LateNighter, the cleaning out of the Comedy Central site in particular wipes out a huge trove of archival material from The Daily Show and other late night series, along with clips from South Park, Key & Peele and Workaholics, among many others. Some of that material is available on YouTube, but its not as easily searchable or accessible as it was on the network page. (The oldest video on the Daily Show YouTube channel, for instance, is from 2016, while the shows history stretches back 20 years before then.) On Paramount+, only the two most recent seasons of The Daily Show are available. The platform has several South Park specials and the 1999 feature film Bigger, Longer and Uncut, but the shows primary streaming home is on Max. Paramount+ does have the full runs of Key & Peele and Workaholics. As of publication time, sites for Paramounts BET, Nickelodeon and VH1 were still active, while MTV.com offered some episodes and clips. The website changes come on the heels of Paramounts coCEOs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins telling employees at a town hall meeting Tuesday that they were embarking on a costcutting mission as profits have dropped for the company. Paramount is looking for $500 million in reduced costs, which will mean layoffs for some employees.