What’s Left Of Cable TV Is Slowly Going To Hell
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from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 04:00
https://lemmy.world/post/9624159
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 04:00
https://lemmy.world/post/9624159
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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Slowly? It’s been in hell since I was a child.
The eternal race to the bin, ladies and gentlemen. And it just gets faster and faster.
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. 
(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.
If they put cable tv shows on YouTube, maybe someone would watch them
Why would anyone hire these people?
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.
Hello Boeing, does this sound familiar to you in any way?
Fucking shitass McDonnell execs 😑
Don’t get me started on how fucking cozy they are with the FAA.
Anyone willing to cut costs and piss away the reputation of a company can do that.
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.
Write a script. Anyone could do it.
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.
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