How things have changed

A lot of tv personalities have started making their own shows and releasing them to Youtube, especially former personalities of various Foodnetwork shows. Jay Leno's Garage has been on youtube for many years. I saw The Martin Bros have been putting some content out on youtube of their custom auto work now that Motor Trend ended all their shows too. So there is a lot of good content on Youtube and its not just amateur entrepreneurs. Richard Rawlings moved his Gas Monkey Garage content to youtube many years ago after arguments with Discovery on the direction of the show.

Michael Symon, Carla Hall and Clinton Kelly launched an updated version of The Chew called Chewed Up on Youtube about 6 months ago. Its been so successful that LG is sponsoring it now and moved them to the LG test kitchen and gave them their own 24/7 channel on the LG OS free streaming service.

It's success has led to Clinton Kelly and Stacey London launching a new show Why'd They Wear That as a spin on their old shows. Today Michael Symon launched Simply Symon as a new version of his Symons Dinners Cooking Out show after Foodnetwork cancelled it along with nearly all their other non competition food shows.


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I see a lot of that celeb stuff on YT. Honestly, that is not why I watch things there. I still gravitate mostly to original, long form stuff from people who aren't famous in the classical way. Of course, the app keeps recommending that celeb stuff to me no matter how much I tell it I am not interested.
 
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10 months in a row, streaming is ahead of Cable/Streaming combined, by 5.9% more-

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Once Streaming is dominant media source, then you will see people start cutting out streaming sources and go back to OTA and Free Tv stations, due to price increases. Will come back full circle to the 1950s with 3 or 4 ota stations to watch for free.

I can already see that with every merger they are just consolidating back to cable again. Paramount wants Warner/ Discovery and CNN and Hbo will go away as a stand alone and become merged with Paramount. Showtime is no longer a stand alone source. Now merged into Paramount. We will end up with all the extra sources consolidated to 3 or 4 sources and we will be back to cable with ever increasing prices.
 

Heartland, RetroTV, and Rev'N Streaming