The good news about broadcast TV is that it’s as crappy as pay TV, but at least it’s free. That there are independent broadcast channels that show some classic TV and film is broadcast tv’s redeeming feature.
Mostly, I will watch local TV for weather, traffic and bar shooting evets.
Times change and technology changes
Audiences for broadcast TV are eroding.
Audiences for terrestrial radio are eroding
Readership of printed newspapers and magazines are eroding.
In the world of TV, aren’t the major broadcast networks heavily invested in cable channels? I think they have diversified away from just being broadcast TV networks.
Wow! The article referred to Zenith. A brand name blsst from the past!
To my perspective TV is a dangerous entity. It is an entity whose product is crafted by sick, torqued liberal minds, and broadcast without remorse unto the World to wreak as much havoc as possible. TV has become a powerful weapon against the unsuspecting as has our education system.
Other than college football games, I have not watched network TV in over 10 years. I don’t miss it.
TV is great if you love watching endless commercials interspersed with a few moments of the show. TV land is saturated with inane commercials.
The way I read this is that the NFL is pretty much propping-up the broadcast TV industry at the moment.
We are one more kneeling outbreak away from the whole house of cards coming down.
Is it possible to garner a negative rating? It’s not because they haven’t tried.
I’m sure this will only accelerate as more and more people cut the cord. I finally dumped comcast cable and my only regret is that I didn’t do it years ago. I mostly watch documentaries and there is a lifetime supply of those on youtube.
“This Is Us”
I personally know the execs and producer for that show. One is a crazy leftard moonbat while the other is a sane libertarian.
I watched a sum total of about 2 minutes of noobs and deleted them from my TiVo ‘to record’ function:
Evil
Bluff City Law
All Rise
Stumptown
Almost Family
Emergence is iffy. I keep thinking it might get better. It hasn’t.
SWAT [Social Work At Ten] has also become tediouly social justice warrior.
“Youngsters” don’t have the attention span for 20-episode season, especially when you can’t binge then NOW.
Frankly, the writers don’t have the attention span for them either.
I can’t think of one network show that is “must see” - most are pure crap and the writing lacks a modicum of intelligence...but lots of Socialist Warrior propaganda.
Thru ROKU, I watch...
SouthPark (mostly the older episodes i.e. “Gingers”, “The Last of the Meeheecans”, etc)
Get Shorty (EPIX) - absolutely GREAT series
A few movies on ROKU channel app
Thru Amazon “free” IMDB
Fringe
Warehouse 13
Limitless (the old CBS series)
Local-area Baseball ratings are up again in 2019 (more than recovering from an early-season slump). In most of America, they are the highest-rated TV channels! That’s right: on your average night, baseball is the highest rated show on TV. And summer isn’t just for re-runs anymore, with the year-round TV schedule!
“...but that does not mean ABC, CBS et al are about to close up shop and leave your Zenith with nothing but test patterns.”
They stopped making Zenith TVs in 1995, LOL!
So, is that cause or correlation? I get those two confused. ;)
Who remembers freeper CommonTator? He’d have a few words on this one!
“Network TV is mostly terrible. “
mostly?