What is going on is censorship. Warner Brothers acquired DramaFever from its Japanese owner just a couple of years ago. DramaFever was one of the primary outlets for Americans to watch subtitled Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese and Chinese television programs and dramas, most of which are of far higher quality than the toxic junk Hollywood puts out on American TV. If you wanted to watch TV series with wholesome family values and high excellence, you watched programming on DramaFever (as well as Viki, which I am now worried is the next to go).
This is easy to figure out. The American networks and cable stations realized that they were losing far too many viewers to this alternative media outlet, so it had to be shut down without notice.
Not much different than what you are seeing happen on YouTube, Facebook and other media sources.
This really ticks me off. We are losing all our freedoms in this country very rapidly due to the stifling censorship of American corporate media. This is a very sad day.
The media is the deep state.
Is Sony part of that?
Sony has been producing a lot of wonderful Christian movies, such as ‘War Room’ and Kevin Sorbo movies.
“We are losing all our freedoms in this country very rapidly due to the stifling censorship of American corporate media.”
(**Analogy warning.**)
Despite being massively financed, the war on drugs has been a dismal failure. This is because it contravenes a basic law of economics. If there is sufficient demand for something, there will be a supply. The corollary is, the bigger the demand the cheaper the supply will be.
If there is a sufficient demand for wholesome programming, there will eventually be a supply. The reason drugs were so expensive and relatively unavailable in the ‘60’s is because there was a strong monopoly. The reason wholesome programming is generally unavailable is the same.
I don’t know so much about the censorship as it is limlted programming scope/market.
TV distributors don’t care if they’re showing Jerry Springer, Touched By an Angel or Sons of Anarchy.
I doubt any of the Asian program providers were providing these shows free of charge and really doubt there was much of a commercial market for it in the US.
A niche enthusiast market is still a limited market. I’m not trying to be harsh but I worked in TV for 10 years and frankly, they don’t care where the dollars come from as long as they come.
If you’re truly looking for this kind of programming and a legit online/streaming outlet is no longer available I suspect that there will be a KODI app for that.
Will this affect netflix?
I watch an asian drama just about everyday. Currently watching programs from Singapore.
Quality varies but most are better than American networks
so can we find it online? Streaming?
KIll your cable and switch to 100% streaming. You are paying for and supporting CNN fake news.
I guess they just don’t do enough Trump Bashing on Korean soap operas.
This sucks!
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A couple of thoughts here:
1. The competition has been stiff and I think when Warner Bros took over DF they weren’t as aggressive in getting new, exclusive content to sustain viewers. They have lost some big ones to other sites. Until they got 30 but 17 and Let’s Eat 3 this summer, I considered cancelling my subscription.
2. Once they started again with the good shows, the prices for licenses had gone up significantly and they probably needed to raise subscription prices.
3. The public TV stations for Korea banded together about a year and a half ago and now have their own streaming service as the market has grown. That accounts 2/3’s of the shows. I like this platform.
4. I think AT&T has a plan for a larger service ala Netflix, Amazon Prime and will attempt to fold KDrama into the larger service. Not planning on subscribing to that.
I understand Business, but if you want respect for your company, the abrupt way they ended was awful. People were in the middle of watching shows and they stopped with no warning.
I agree, American television production should be stepping up to the plate and figuring out the formulas that we like. I am a weekend drama fan. I like my birth secrets, cancer, amnesia, death by truck, middle age passive aggressive verbal catfights, and slow motion trainwrecks that end with several couples living happily ever after with a heartwarming family message. These shows last one “season”. There are the 16-20 episode shows and the 50 episode shows. There is no ruining an upstanding character for the sake of drama. When it’s done, it’s done. And then we can move on to the next one.
Or maybe it just wasn’t making the cash. Usually it’s about cash. Might have been losing exclusivity, Netflix has been upping their Asian content, or losing content completely. Capitalism isn’t sentimental.