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    YouTube TV is now the #4 Video Provider for the United States

    I think Comcast's and Charter's hope is that they will be able to transition from cable bundle distributors to subscription app (and ad-revenue-generating FAST) distributors. The idea is to replace their traditional cable TV revenue stream with the new streaming TV revenue stream. Comcast is...
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    YouTube TV is now the #4 Video Provider for the United States

    As I posted elsewhere today, the cable bundle will soon be mostly distributed/streamed by just three companies, Google, Charter and Comcast, with Google being the only one growing while everyone else withers away. If you're a major owner of traditional TV networks, i.e. Disney, Comcast/NBCU...
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    Paramount +

    https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/paramount-global-junk-rating-sp-global-1235953838/
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    Traditional Providers Losses, the entire year of 2023 Edition

    Ha, yeah, I remember that ad! https://youtu.be/K_sXmRae8Lk?si=HX8kxV8txZg8GSIj
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    Traditional Providers Losses, the entire year of 2023 Edition

    Yeah, that's an important aspect in the history of Netflix that I failed to mention in my history of the company. They expanded globally and began producing locally-originated content from multiple foreign markets. They are, in effect, the first truly international TV network. The costs of...
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    Traditional Providers Losses, the entire year of 2023 Edition

    Yes, but let's not forget about sports. Sports leagues/conferences have demanded ever-higher rates for broadcast rights -- increases that have far, far outstripped general inflation -- over the past couple of decades. Broadcast and cable channels have eagerly agreed to those rate hikes and then...
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    HBO Max/Discovery+ Merger

    I don't think you're alone in have a vague general feeling about a decline in HBO. Based on my actual analysis of the data (number/types of shows, award nomations, critical acclaim) I don't think that's true, either in terms of quality or quantity of HBO Originals output, since HBO was subsumed...
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    When will pay TV companies carry ATSC 3 (NextGen TV) channels?

    Re-read my post above. It has everything you need to know to answer this question. I've been following ATSC 3.0 developments and contributing to the thread on that topic over at AVS Forum for the better part of a decade now.
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    Will Gen Z save over-the-air television?

    LOL. No, Gen Z isn't suddenly going to embrace watching video mainly in live linear form on actual televisions with antennas connected. If the broadcast networks and their local affiliate stations are to survive, they must become available in one or more direct-to-consumer streaming apps that...
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    When will pay TV companies carry ATSC 3 (NextGen TV) channels?

    It's not a ridiculous question because ATSC 3.0 broadcasts are on different stations/towers than traditional 1.0 broadcasts. For instance, my local ABC affiliate is WKRN, which of course pretty much all MVPDs have a license to carry. But their ATSC 3.0 feed is actually carried on WNAB, which is...
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    Paramount +

    For anyone with an American Express card, note that you may have an offer that you can activate through their website to rebate $7 or more off of a Disney bundle when you pay with your AmEx card. I took advantage of this last year and it's available to me again this year. I will soon sign up for...
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    HBO Max/Discovery+ Merger

    I was talking about CBS shows, not Paramount+ Originals (which I find somewhat different from CBS shows) or Showtime Originals (which I find very different from CBS shows). Note, though, that the output of Showtime Originals has been cut by at least 50% this year as Showtime is now just the...
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    HBO Max/Discovery+ Merger

    To each their own, but CBS shows are for senior citizens with middle-of-the-road tastes. Lots of procedurals, cop shows, etc. Formulaic boring stuff.
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    HBO Max/Discovery+ Merger

    The Penguin and Pretty Little Liars are not HBO shows, they are Max Originals and not meant to appeal to the same demographic as HBO Originals. But an HBO cable subscription comes with access to the Max app at no extra cost, which is why I listed those shows.
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    Walmart Seals Deal to Buy VIZIO

    Thanks for that link. I checked out the little video there. Hopefully Walmart takes this new Vizio Home Screen OS and puts it on an inexpensive 4K HDR10+ streaming device. Call it the Vizio StreamStick, include the same simple voice remote that they sell with their current TVs, and sell it for...
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    Walmart Seals Deal to Buy VIZIO

    The Paramount+ app is kind of a turd on Google TV and, from what I hear, on Fire TV too. (It's basically the same app, I guess, since both OSes are Android.) But their app for Apple TV is pretty good.
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    HBO Max/Discovery+ Merger

    Yeah, no one's interested in House of the Dragon, The White Lotus, Curb Your Enthusiasm's final season, True Detective: Night Country, Hacks, The Penguin (starring Colin Ferrell), Pretty Little Liars, or new prestige limited series starring Kate Winslet and Robert Downey, Jr. Right-o. Nothing to...
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    HBO Max/Discovery+ Merger

    LOL. Please. Compare the average Metacritic score for Paramount+ and Showtime series from the past year or two to the average for HBO. Or just look at the 2023 Emmy nominations and wins. HBO, including Max, had 127 noms while Paramount+ and Showtime combined for only 15 noms. HBO won the most...
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    Amazon shutting down it's FreeVee service?

    Freevee content has already been available in its own section of the Prime Video app for awhile now. I had Prime in December, before ads were included. The Freevee content was there too but did have ads. So I very much doubt that paying to go ad-free now in Prime also removes the ads in the...
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    Warner, Fox, Disney to Launch Streaming Sports Joint Venture

    This is one reason why "cable TV" isn't going away completely any time soon. Even if you want cable TV via streaming, you can do that with DirecTV, who offers their own custom streaming box and full-scale remote with channel numbers, so it looks and works in a way that's very familiar to people...
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    HBO Max/Discovery+ Merger

    Nah, there's too low of a subscriber ceiling for ad-free subscription video. Lots of households will spend less money in exchange for having to watch a reasonable amount of ads. That's why Netflix, who built their brand on ad-free on-demand streaming, eventually reversed course and began...
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    HBO Max/Discovery+ Merger

    Yes, while it's true that WBD's Max is well ahead of Paramount+ and Peacock in having now achieved a slightly profitable year, it should also be noted that WBD counts HBO however it's distributed (including the bulk of its subs who come in via MVPDs) as part of their streaming figures. Here's...
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    Walmart Seals Deal to Buy VIZIO

    Well, it definitely used to be the case that streaming through a smart TV was not as good as using an external streamer. Apps were slower and clunkier, and in some cases, not even available. And sure, some of us still prefer our external devices. (I love my Apple TV 4K.) But smart TVs have...
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    Nielsen Chart

    I assume that Nielsen's "Broadcast" and "Cable" categories refer to the types of linear channels viewed, not the way they are physically transmitted. For instance, whether someone watches their local NBC station either via OTA antenna or through their Comcast Xfinity TV service, that would be...
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    Walmart Seals Deal to Buy VIZIO

    Using the built-in smart TV OS rather than an external streaming device is rapidly becoming the norm. TV manufacturers have been putting better processors and software in their TVs in recent years and, in the case of three of the top 5 selling brands (TCL, Hisense and Sony), the smart TV OS is...
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