Posted on 12/14/2022 8:23:58 PM PST by bitt
The far-left Hollywood Reporter thinks it’s doing journalism with this hilarious story about how all the major entertainment multinationals are freaking out over the fact that cord-cutting is accelerating, and streaming revenue is failing to make up for that shortfall.
Here’s what’s happening…
About 3.5 million people are canceling their cable/satellite packages per year. That is a massive loss of revenue for entertainment outlets. Why? Well, as I have been explaining for 15 years now, merit has nothing to do with cable TV profits.
Whether you watch the Disney Grooming Channel, MTV, CNNLOL, TBS, TCM, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, or all those other well-known networks, the providers/studios that own those networks all get a piece of your monthly bill. For example, just because you (like the rest of America) do not watch CNN, because it is still part of your cable package, you are subsidizing CNN. Every month, something like a dollar of your cable bill goes to CNN’s parent company. Same with all the other networks you don’t watch. Now do the math. Twelve dollars a month times 100 million households equals $1.2 billion for CNN per year, even though no one watches CNN.
The whole cable game is rigged.
Do the new math…
Twelve dollars a year times 3.5 million cancellations per year…. Except it’s not $12 a year, because these major entertainment outlets have up to a dozen or more channels earning those fees. At one point ESPN alone was earning around $5 a month. That’s $60 a year from 100 million households.
As I’ve been predicting (and championing) for more than a decade, streaming would not only eventually kill the cable TV cash cow, streaming would force these entertainment outlets to do something they did not have to do with a rigged cable: provide news and
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this is what i have been sayin’
we use only Roku now
Plenty of free programming, pay stuff too but we dont
Link it to the hotspot ($10 per device/mnth added 10GB) on your cellphone and you dont even need an additional internet connection, unless you want that.
Gone, a $100+ mnth comcast bill
He’s great.
Thinking about Sling Blue to start. No Disney or ESPN. No local channels, but no $10+/mo re-broadcast fees. An indoor from our location can get the major networks, if we need them (no DVR though).
Paramount alone lost $1.8 billion in 2022:
https://deadline.com/2022/08/paramount-global-earnigns-paramount-streaming-content-spending-1235084972/
*indoor antenna
Vudu is an option. You buy or rent shows a la carte. We watch several shows on Freevee (formerly IMDB) and Tubi. Both are free.
I have thought for a long time that someone ought to offer a package based only on the channels the subscriber wants.
“ I would have cut the cord years ago if it weren’t for my wife.….”
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Major league dittos to that.
It’s not just the studios either.
The NFL has tried to coordinate with Amazon Prime to increase
their viewership.
Hopefully that has fallen flat too.
Many feel that way.
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Never watched TV much for decades, do not miss it now.
Wife has one of theose Roku things and gets some of the few things she used to watch on cable.
It seems the few she cares about can be paid for independently, so she is not subsidizing the liberal garbage to watch them..
Same here. There is plenty to watch on those services. No need to pay for special channels at all. Also Newsmax is free, not bad for the price. Other free services include Plex, Crackle, and Pluto. I rarely watch those because Freevee and Tubi usually have more than enough to keep my attention.
What’s the cheapest streaming to get the ESPN channels!
repent for all the gag me force fed queer crap... and flush that content like the dirty turd collection it is...
and return to hetero sex based plots with bad guys getting snuffed for being bad, aka “woketards”...
Make christmas movies about the life, principle, teachings and history of Christ, his followers and the goodness of God almighty... aka john wayne type of true grit stories, sci fi and all that...
and some of us might, that is MIGHT reconnect... but get rid of the homo crap...
If only ESPN, this tells you what’s cheapest:
https://sportsnaut.com/espn-plus-packages-and-pricing/
Roku is great, and I know someone who uses their cellphone for all Roku access on their TV.
One month she used over 100 GB.
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