Not sure this is that big of a loss. Broadcast TV is dying. But so is cable TV. If Netflix and Prime aren’t careful with the garbage that they have been putting out, they will be too. Consumers aren’t being forced into pay services - most of them are going online to YouTube and other free streaming services. We are just watching the evolution of the entertainment medium . The old - network TV and Hollywood - die and the new take its place.
I don’t watch TV but my wife had Fox News on. There was an 15 minute interview with an “expert” saying they don’t know what will happen to Aunt Bea’s Senate seat. Why does it take that long to say nothing?
” The old - network TV and Hollywood - die and the new take its place.”
But then the Old buys out the new and you’re back to where you started. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss................
I’ve heard that in some recent rating periods, that more people are watching streaming services than either cable TV or broadcast TV channels.
And we’ve been hearing about cord cutting for a while, where people cut the cord of cable TV. And they’ve been doing that because they’re watching streaming channels instead. They don’t want to pay for both cable and streaming services.
Yes broadcasting is evolving.
Sure, they have commercials, but so do the streaming services people pay for! I like a lot of the stuff on Roku...
I hate what youtube is doing with their ads. They interrupt what you are watching. Unless you pay, which I refuse to do.
Half the ads I get on Youtube are them telling me if I gave them some money I’d get no ads. These days most “free” stuff is running the crack marketing model, only free until you’re hooked.