Recent content by NashGuy

LOL. Well, I suspect the ultimate fate of Walter Cronkite's CBS News will be to join forces with the pioneer of 24/7 cable news, Ted Turner's CNN, which he might actually like. Warner Bros. Discovery is about the only publicly traded US company that I can see who is both interested in buying...

Paramount+ will not be profitable in about a year. They *claim* that it will be profitable domestically next year, but not internationally/overall. I suspect at least part of the reason for that is they are now counting revenue from some or all of the approximately 20 million Showtime pay TV...

I don't think this would be the better deal for Hollywood, necessarily, as (per the NYT's report) Sony would likely just make Paramount a subsidiary label within Sony (much like Columbia Pictures). That would mean one fewer studio for the creative community to pitch their ideas to. But I do...

I've long thought that Hulu with Live TV might get shut down at the point when ESPN it its entirety becomes available as a standalone DTC streaming service. Because ESPN is the original "killer app" of the basic cable bundle. Once you yank that out and sell it a la carte, the whole thing really...

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...

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...

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/paramount-global-junk-rating-sp-global-1235953838/

Ha, yeah, I remember that ad! https://youtu.be/K_sXmRae8Lk?si=HX8kxV8txZg8GSIj

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...