What’s Left Of Cable TV Is Slowly Going To Hell (www.techdirt.com)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 04:00
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What’s Left Of Cable TV Is Slowly Going To Hell::We just got done noting how 2023 was finally the year that streaming fully surpassed traditional TV in terms of overall paying subscribers. A very obvious “cord cutting” trend that executives spent years claiming was fake or a fad is now the majority norm. But what’s left of traditional cable TV isn’t doing so well.  Broadcast…

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Rizoid@programming.dev on 16 Dec 2023 04:09 next collapse

Slowly? It’s been in hell since I was a child.

henfredemars@infosec.pub on 16 Dec 2023 04:57 next collapse

At the heart of the problem sits Wall Street’s myopic thirst for improved quarterly returns at any cost. It’s simply not good enough to provide people with a quality product everybody likes; the need for improved quarterly returns inevitably results in a quest for scale and growth that always cut corners and sacrifices product quality […]

The eternal race to the bin, ladies and gentlemen. And it just gets faster and faster.

gregorum@lemm.ee on 16 Dec 2023 05:02 collapse

This is literally the description of capitalism. To think that it is isolated to the cable market is a display of the myopia that the author of this article describes themselves. 

RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social on 16 Dec 2023 09:18 collapse

(Sarcasm warning)
It’s almost as if capitalism gives us the least of everything at the greatest cost, rather than the opposite!

Nawh, people keep saying it’s the best system so it must be.

robocall@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 08:31 next collapse

If they put cable tv shows on YouTube, maybe someone would watch them

AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 2023 11:24 next collapse

That said, many of the executives who ran cable TV into the ground have jumped ship to streaming, and are repeating many of the same mistakes without having learned much of anything from history or experience.

Why would anyone hire these people?

MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 16:37 next collapse

Because short term profits are the goal. Squeeze the company dry, leave with your golden parachute, and the problems you created are the next guys issue.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 16 Dec 2023 17:04 next collapse

Hello Boeing, does this sound familiar to you in any way?

RubberElectrons@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 18:20 next collapse

Fucking shitass McDonnell execs 😑

AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 2023 20:08 collapse

Don’t get me started on how fucking cozy they are with the FAA.

AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 2023 20:45 collapse

Anyone willing to cut costs and piss away the reputation of a company can do that.

monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 20:16 collapse

This is always the same pattern. The new thing is taken over by the same old players and it becomes shitty like the same old thing.

AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Dec 2023 21:54 collapse

Write a script. Anyone could do it.

jordanlund@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 12:49 collapse

I gave up on cable years ago, a streaming service that lets me curate my own favorites list and ignore the rest of the crap out there is really all I need or want.

Can’t say I’ve even THOUGHT about broadcast TV.

AA5B@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 16:01 collapse

We should all consider broadcast tv … at least if we occasionally like live video, like sports. I’m not subscribing to an expensive new service for the handful of nfl games I watch in a year, for example

Actually, I do kind of wonder whether sports moving to exclusive streaming channels has affected sports bars. I’ve never gone to such a place intentionally to watch a specific sport, but I’m tempted to, over subscribing to a new expensive streaming service

Before streaming, my TiVo was able to mitigate excessive advertising (and let me watch shows in a fraction of the time), I should look for something like that