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Posted on 02/22/2015 4:02:09 PM PST by SamAdams76
With YouTube to watch, Instagram pictures to take and Facebook, Snapchat and other social media platforms to explore, a generation of young Americans that used to turn to television for entertainment is finding its fix elsewhere. They are watching on-demand services, such as Netflix and Hulu and the BBC iPlayer but turning off “linear” TV, or tuning in at a set time on a set channel. This migration has been gradual but is starting to show up in the quarterly results of some of the world’s biggest media companies — and investors are beginning to notice.
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But this demographic is no longer getting brainwashed by network, Colbert and Jon Stewart.. that’s a huge relief in itself.
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
That’s why advert rates for sports have been so strong. Tthe only thing folks are watching live.
I’m watching them on Viki.
Not all Latin American telenovelas are subtitled but the “Korean Wave” ones usually are.
Of course “net neutrality” would change the nature of streaming media and make it less accessible.
Follow the money.
Certainly Would be for me. If it wasn't for my wife who likes sports I save $180 a month by could shutting off cable.
That was my only pain point in cutting my cable.
Enter Buffalo Wild Wings (and other sports bars like it).
I spent many Sunday afternoons during the past football season at one of those places, with a gazillion large screen TVs, sipping some microbrew beers at the bar with all the hamburgers, fries and chicken wings I could handle.
It is much better watching a game this way. I watched the Super Bowl and being in a jam-packed bar with 500 other people as Seattle literally tossed the game away in the final seconds was indescribable. And I also was toggling between Free Republic, ESPN and Twitter on my tablet and smartphone.
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.
Amen. Otherwise, we're just amusing ourselves to death.
TV is sponsored by the body mortgagers.
And 90% of sports advertisers are for “insurance” body/ movement mortgages.
Get XM radio
Ooma is VOIP??? Where do you get your improved internet?
Die, you polluted, archaic, propaganda-spewing garbage machines!
How about this — put someone on the air that anyone but a moron would want to watch, and fill the non-broadcast channels with stuff that is either re-runs or unfit for broadcast TV.
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As SamAdams76 notes: there are other ways to see those sports, and in ways more rewarding & meaningful than opening the portal for lots of other crap to pour into your home & head. Go to a bar or friend’s home.
Some streaming services like AppleTV are starting to carry subscriptions to major sports - dump the ads, pay less, and get far more & better content.
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