Nolte: Cable TV’s Collapse Now Seen as Inevitable — and That’s a Good Thing
Pay TV lost 1.6 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2024, and “there doesn’t seem to be any reason for those losses to stop.”
Pay TV lost 1.6 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2024, and “there doesn’t seem to be any reason for those losses to stop.”
As more and more major outlets have joined the streaming world, some subscription prices have doubled instead of decreased.
A&E Network has announced a series of layoffs affecting staffers and executives alike across the Hearst Communications, Disney-owned Lifetime, History Channel, and A&E networks, as the cable industry continues to be buffeted by steep financial losses.
As streaming subscriptions plateau and two to three million cancel their CSTV every year, things will only get worse for Hollywood.
Streaming bundles suck you in with a low price, and then one day you realize you are the slow-boiled frog paying $100 a month for content you hardly watch.
All of these media companies are struggling, and the primary reason is the death of cable/satellite TV.
YouTube TV experienced its first-ever quarterly subscriber loss in what appears to be an ominous sign of increasing churn for the live TV streaming sector, according to a new report from analyst Craig Moffett.
Nolte: The Disney Grooming Syndicate has announced it will “reduce pretty dramatically” its investment in TV content.
Viewers continue to flee CNN and other networks owned by Warner Bros. Discovery in droves, pushing down advertising revenue in what has become a non-stop free fall for the cable TV industry.
“I think linear TV is kinda toast,” actor Edward Norton told CNBC Tuesday. He is absolutely right. Cable/satellite TV is doomed.
Comcast/NBC/Universal’s streaming service, Peacock, lost a whopping $639 million in the first three months of 2024.
Hollywood studio Paramount Global has been downgraded to junk status by S&P, which cited the ongoing plunge in cable TV subscriptions as the reason for the credit rating change.
Nolte: Millions of Americans are canceling their cable TV — and streaming TV is not picking up the slack.
All that’s left is for Hollywood to try and recreate the racket known as cable/satellite TV through streaming mergers.
Wall Street is living with the fear that streaming services will never match the massive income generated by cable TV.
Nolte: In 2022, a sewer pipe delivered some 2,264 TV shows to American households. Last year, that number dropped to 1,784.
Cable TV was a form of socialism: there was no real competition, and everyone paid for everyone else’s content.
Every American who cuts the pay-TV cord is a patriot… A patriot who saves a fortune…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is helping to kill off cable TV. So now we have one more reason to love AI.
The House Energy and Commerce committee, led by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), is planning to investigate the state of the video marketplace in America, as streaming companies like Google-owned YouTube and Disney-owned Hulu make a bid for dominance in TV distribution.
After the left-wing affirmative action of cable TV dies, the Woke Nazis can choose to entertain normal people or go bankrupt.
Do not adjust your set. If it has lost a few of your favourite viewing channels, there is a reason. A corporate dispute means a number of Disney Entertainment channels have gone dark on Charter Spectrum cable systems including ABC, ESPN, FX and Freeform, effectively isolating the country’s second-largest cable TV provider from its 14.7 million subscribers.
I kid you not: canceling your cable or satellite package does more damage to left-wing Hollywood than anything else.
Pay TV is nothing more or less than affirmative action for left-wing networks like CNNLOL. The sooner it dies, the better that is for America, liberty, and common decency.
People need to be informed and reminded of just how they are being conned into funding their own destruction.
Other than Netflix, Hollywood’s streaming services have become black holes that suck up billions in cash.
TNT has announced it will not air the fourth and final season of its sci-fi drama, Snowpiercer, as planned.
Satellite and streaming TV service Dish Network reported losing 273,000 subscribers during the fourth quarter.
After spending five years attempting to claim President Trump stole the 2016 election, after five years of pushing the Russia Collusion Hoax, after five years of promoting and encouraging violence against Trump and his supporters, the far-left CNN is now demanding that its competition at OAN and Newsmax TV be blacklisted.
Some “27% of U.S. cable TV subscribers plan to end their subscriptions by the end of 2021, which is nearly double from 2020.”
The disgraced Fox News Channel is LOL’n at you, is literally making faces at you when they think you’re not looking; is lying to you, is meddling in elections, censoring the president, rigging polls, and obviously hates you. Why are you making these backstabbers rich?
With another 6 million lost subscribers in 2019, customers are still fleeing traditional cable and satellite networks in droves.
What had been 100 million cable TV households dropped to something closer to 80 million as Netflix exploded, and now… Begun the streaming war has.
America’s experts told you Donald Trump couldn’t win, told you the economy was headed into recession, told you cord-cutting would slow down. America’s experts are idiots.
Cutting the cord is an effective way to starve the CNNs of the world, an existential threat, and if you love America you will stop reading this and cut the cord right now.
A new report from the Wall Street Journal suggests that streaming television subscriptions are slowly increasing in price over time.
Cord cutting is exploding as a record number 32.8 percent of the adult population do not pay for cable TV.
Cord-cutters have won a big victory., A company called Philo is now offering 37 live streaming channels for only $16 a month. The best news is that you are not subsidizing CNN or ESPN.
60 percent of young Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 use online streaming services as their primary way to watch television, according to a report.
Subscriptions for cable television and Netflix are now “neck and neck,” according to a report.