Most people under the age of 30 consume media through their personal devices. They watch TV shows over the Internet on YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and others.
The idea of tuning into a show on TV at a certain time seems quaint to them.
What this means is that broadcast television as we know it is dying a slow but sure death.
The idea of tuning into a show on NetFlix seems quaint to many as well.
2 years cable free and will be watching Walking Dead tonight followed by American Sniper.
I just caught the KDrama bug myself. I haven’t watched a US-made TV show in years.
Switch to on-demand tv? How about switch to NO outside tv at all?
Kill it all, stop the infestation of your home with crap, stop financially supporting the companies that create it.
Onoz! Ask the liberal media companies hurting for money!
I would say they aren't dead yet. The gov is moving in on the internet..
Considering the ratio of cra, I mean commercials to content, I stopped watching live TV a long time ago. I get by just fine with Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. I dumped Dish months ago.
I’m watching less TV for all kinds of reasons. But, one that puzzles me is:
WHY does Hollywood play background music with lyrics at the same time the characters are talking?
It’s loud, too.
I don’t get it.
I’m over 50 and I rarely watch TV on its broadcast schedule.
I either use my cable provider’s on-demand service, or Youtube or Netflix.
But I don’t watch on my “device”, I watch on my TV - through ChromeCast.
I gave up cable about 8 months ago. Sometimes it would be nice to watch Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC and a few other channels. Oh well.
The ONLY time I see regular TV is every morning in the gym as I’m running, and I barely watch it at all. There’s never any sound and what I see only confirms I’ve had proper viewing habits for the past 15 years.
I despise linear TV and I’m completely sure it’s headed for the grave.
In 10 years it will be totally GONE.
We rarely watch ‘live TV’ anymore. The only show we watch ‘live’ is The Walking Dead, but we’ve considered just watching it an hour later to skip all of the commercials.
Technology has given the entire business model of TV a REAL problem. I don’t buy any of the crap they show to us on commercials anyway, so they aren’t losing anything by me. lol
Of course “net neutrality” would change the nature of streaming media and make it less accessible.
Follow the money.
ya mean all the employees of NBC CBS and ABC will lose th.eir jobs, homes, savings and future?
I’ll try to give a shi’ite
Cut the Directv cord a few months back. Get everything I need from the Net.
Onoz! Ask the liberal media companies hurting for money!
We’ve been taking care of my 3 year old granddaughter. We spend most of our TV hours watching toy demonstrations on You Tube. You cannot believe the number of hits these videos get. They pull in more viewers than most cable channels. They are as boring as watching paint dry, but the kids love them.
TV is sponsored by the body mortgagers.
And 90% of sports advertisers are for “insurance” body/ movement mortgages.
Die, you polluted, archaic, propaganda-spewing garbage machines!
Some are already fighting back. You need to be subscribed to a cable service to stream their shows on demand. Fox news has some special setup within hulu, that if you want to watch some past episodes, it checks your cable/internet service for the TV/internet bundle like FIOS or U-verse.
CBS is going to a subscription model similar to netflix. I dont’ know if it will expand past CBS’s own holdings, but it just may.
Others may wait and see what happens to CBS but I think it will go over and the big 3 ... CBS, NBC and ABC will have a joint venture similar to netflix.
Meanwhile, the streaming providers are now creating their own content with much better quality than broadcast TV. Might even surpass the cable channels which have very good quality material themselves.
This will have the good and unintentional side-effect of lowering the influence of the Hollywood and New York entertainment elite.
We, the wife and I, were paying close to three thousand dollars a year for tv, internet, and phone. In our new contract we threw out some things and are paying substantially less.