I think it could be saved but I also think that they intentionally drove cable into the ground. One could make an argument that the tracking and analytics received from online streaming these channels via YouTubeTV, Fubo etc are more valuable to them than traditional cable. This is because of the detailed data mining done on their own ecosystems. There has to be something more to it Scully!. Takes off tin foil hat.
It could be saved if they made good shows and allowed subscriptions to individual channels rather than packages. They won't do this, and instead will try to make streaming services more like cable.
do any of those have any actual monetary value whatsoever? The news channels at least have value as agents of propaganda but i haven't heard of those others in a couple decades.
I think they would have more monetary value than expected if they were off of cable and its restrictions.
SyFy has a huge catalogue of B Movies or one-off science documentaries that people would probably subscribe to. Oxygen has similar with true crime documentaries for women's masturbation. And USA has a lot of those long running series that somehow had good ratings despite no one ever talking about them like Burn Notice that would do well with the "need something to binge" crowd.
If they were offered as pieces of a decently priced sub, they'd all easily see good numbers again I think.
And USA has a lot of those long running series that somehow had good ratings despite no one ever talking about them like Burn Notice
They also air nonstop Law & Order: SVU, A.K.A. The Olivia Benson Boo-Boo Hour. It jumped the shark well before this point (probably somewhere around season 8 or 9), but it went full blown feminazi once the Elliot Stabler character got written out (season 13 onward), and is now one of those shows that just refuses to die (kinda like The Simpsons and Family Guy in a way).
This doesn't take into account real stinkers like the GamerGate episode, the episode with the Lauren Southern lookalike, and an episode based on PizzaGate (I didn't watch the whole episode, but you can make a good guess which way it goes).
Law & Order, much like CSI on Spike or even Family Guy on Adult Swim, is one of those shows you can air constantly because people know the gist of the setup and will just sit back and watch random episodes whenever they happen to catch them without much fuss.
Its a pretty good setup for a "never ending" TV series to have a continuous trickle of watchers.
Also SVU was always shit. The entire premise is that sex crimes are more equal than others and get special treatment because its usually something bad happening to women. Men getting murdered? Eh, fuck it let the regular investigators bumble through it. Woman getting stalked? Call in the Special unit!!
Recently got stuck around cable tv so watched a little. It’s all stuck back in the ‘00’s to ‘80’s. Jersey shore is still a thing. Never watched it then, can’t imagine anybody still watches it. At best these people are living off subscriptions from old people too senile to cancel, like AOL.
This is probably the biggest indication so far that cable tv is dead.
I think it could be saved but I also think that they intentionally drove cable into the ground. One could make an argument that the tracking and analytics received from online streaming these channels via YouTubeTV, Fubo etc are more valuable to them than traditional cable. This is because of the detailed data mining done on their own ecosystems. There has to be something more to it Scully!. Takes off tin foil hat.
It could be saved if they made good shows and allowed subscriptions to individual channels rather than packages. They won't do this, and instead will try to make streaming services more like cable.
do any of those have any actual monetary value whatsoever? The news channels at least have value as agents of propaganda but i haven't heard of those others in a couple decades.
I think they would have more monetary value than expected if they were off of cable and its restrictions.
SyFy has a huge catalogue of B Movies or one-off science documentaries that people would probably subscribe to. Oxygen has similar with true crime documentaries for women's masturbation. And USA has a lot of those long running series that somehow had good ratings despite no one ever talking about them like Burn Notice that would do well with the "need something to binge" crowd.
If they were offered as pieces of a decently priced sub, they'd all easily see good numbers again I think.
They also air nonstop Law & Order: SVU, A.K.A. The Olivia Benson Boo-Boo Hour. It jumped the shark well before this point (probably somewhere around season 8 or 9), but it went full blown feminazi once the Elliot Stabler character got written out (season 13 onward), and is now one of those shows that just refuses to die (kinda like The Simpsons and Family Guy in a way).
This doesn't take into account real stinkers like the GamerGate episode, the episode with the Lauren Southern lookalike, and an episode based on PizzaGate (I didn't watch the whole episode, but you can make a good guess which way it goes).
Law & Order, much like CSI on Spike or even Family Guy on Adult Swim, is one of those shows you can air constantly because people know the gist of the setup and will just sit back and watch random episodes whenever they happen to catch them without much fuss.
Its a pretty good setup for a "never ending" TV series to have a continuous trickle of watchers.
Also SVU was always shit. The entire premise is that sex crimes are more equal than others and get special treatment because its usually something bad happening to women. Men getting murdered? Eh, fuck it let the regular investigators bumble through it. Woman getting stalked? Call in the Special unit!!
There are very few programs that get decent ratings (or are highly-promoted on Peacock) among this collection.
I haven't watched any of that in decades, I lived.
Recently got stuck around cable tv so watched a little. It’s all stuck back in the ‘00’s to ‘80’s. Jersey shore is still a thing. Never watched it then, can’t imagine anybody still watches it. At best these people are living off subscriptions from old people too senile to cancel, like AOL.
They know it too.
In the 90s this would have been groundbreaking news.
Now this barely breaks wind.
Whoever buys those D-list networks is going to have the Retirement Home audience on LOCK.