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Posted on 01/01/2020 11:14:30 PM PST by Conserv
Cord cutting is having a major impact on TV network ratings. Last week, Deadline released some 2019 viewership numbers that showed entertainment networks saw their ratings drop double digits.
AMC ratings dropped 22%, FX dropped 21%, TBS was down 17%, USA lost 18%, and TNT was down 15%. NBC Sports Network lost 20% of its viewers in 2019.
News didn’t do much better. Only Fox News saw its numbers go up with 3% growth. MSNBC lost 3% and CNN lost 9% of its viewers in 2019.
The Disney Channel saw the biggest drop in 2019 with 30% of its viewers leaving. At one point the Disney Channel was the second-largest basic cable TV network. Now it is ranked 28th. Disney Jr lost 25% of its viewers in 2019.
Oxygen lost 13% of its subscribers and HGTV lost 10% of its viewers but still managed to jump up to be the third-largest basic cable TV channel based on subscribers.
There were a few channels that gained subscribers in 2019: TLC jumped up 13% and the Hallmark Channel gained 4%. Lifetime and Bravo gained 1% and WeTV jumped up 9%.
Within three years, I anticipate the Disney Channel folding up completely and giving up.
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They’re dying a slow death.
Why aren’t these networks pushing to get their content up on streaming services like Netflix or Hulu?
They ALL need to get their content onto a major streaming service ASAP or do it themselves and try to stay relevant.
Pluto TV is a decent, free alternative. You can download the app for your phone and “cast” it to a smart tv. You can view it on the web at http://pluto.tv There’s at least 100 channels that you can watch at any given time.
As cord cutting has become more widespread in the last few years, has the price of cable decreased at all?
Strictly antenna now for 3 yrs.
Last time I paid for cable(Cox) it was $52 a month.
For the fun of it, I recently checked what I would have to pay for the same channels. It was $72.
My DAWGS were on ESPN tonight, but I just watched it on my laptop with this...
It’s not just folks switching to streaming, as most people view “cable cutters”. Plenty of people are just leaving TV altogether.
Some are streamed on Hulu.
I cut my cable a while back...even cut out Netflix (crap for content).
ROCKU and YouTubeTV work for me.
So people are leaving cable and the price has gone UP in the last 3 years by $20? Are these idiots insane?
It would seem that streaming has some limitations also. By the time you sign up to all the different services wouldn’t it get pretty expensive?
I haven’t signed up for anything.
All I paid for is my antenna. $43 at Walmart.
If I want to watch Fox News or ESPN or etc, I just use my laptop and that link. Doesn’t cost me anything.
Disney is among the most aggressive in pushing the homo agenda and they saw the biggest drop. But I am sure there is no connection.
Roger that. We totally cord cut - even the house phone - two years ago, and have six Roku boxes and an Amazon Fire Stick that was gifted to us. We keep our Hulu subscription, and have an in-law Netflix account. Otherwise, I go PlutoTV, Vudu, ShoutFactoryTV, Comet TV, Sony Crackle, TubiTV, YouTube, all that jazz. One thing about keeping your ISP: once you have an account with your Internet provider, you can usually log into many of the regular channels free (TCM, TNT, AMC TV, etc., as long as you don’t mind sitting through the commercials). We pay our monthly Internet access fee, a $7.99 premium for Hulu, and get thousands of channels, 95% of which are infinitely more interesting than one of the package scams our cable provider tries to push off on us.
Not only this, but the commercials suck and are beaten into you (same ones, same commercial time slot) so much that you get sick of them. The program time diminishes every year and it seems like there is more commercials than program time.
This viewer drop-off was entirely predicable with the crappy programming and loathsome and over repeated commercials. And oh, by the way, have you noticed how cable news sucks as well?
I have that same antenna mounted on the roof and get plenty of channels, though I don’t watch TV very much. In addition, I have unlimited Internet for $35 per month and can use that to watch movies or baseball games if I want. So I pay a total of $35 per month for all my video needs as opposed to a car-sized payment for cable.
I’m on a Windows 7 PC* & tried that link, but all I get are a channel guide and still images (sort of 2/3 page station logos.) Nothing clicked on actually plays or does anything beyond move around in the channel guide...
???
*I have some programs that just won’t run on Win 10, no matter what I do with compatibility settings, etc.
I might try Pluto TV on the Win 10 laptop later today. Gotta get some sleep, now...
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