Pretty much exactly my experience with CC, and that despite being a strong admirer of Stewart.
HBO is following a vastly saner path with John Oliver, whose videos simply appear on YouTube. I'm not generally a fan of single-vendor consolidation, but if:
1. Video providers aren't going to directly provide media and...
2. YouTube Just Works (including via scrapers such as youtube-dl), well, then so it goes.
NB: ytdl also hits a ton of other sites, including Vimeo and The Internet Archive (which, truth told supports direct download and streaming, but ytdl is in finger memory now). Those that Just Work will be utilised.
HBO is following a vastly saner path with John Oliver, whose videos simply appear on YouTube. I'm not generally a fan of single-vendor consolidation, but if:
1. Video providers aren't going to directly provide media and...
2. YouTube Just Works (including via scrapers such as youtube-dl), well, then so it goes.
NB: ytdl also hits a ton of other sites, including Vimeo and The Internet Archive (which, truth told supports direct download and streaming, but ytdl is in finger memory now). Those that Just Work will be utilised.