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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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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

(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.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 9 months ago

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?

[–] Rizoid@programming.dev 26 points 9 months ago

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

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

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

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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