The future of satellite TV is unclear
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Its not just satellite...its cable..tv is evolving into a streaming media
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Netflix CEO Predicts Broadcast TV Will Die By 2030 | Digital Trends
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Broadcast TV will not die by 2030, at least not OTA. I don't forsee fast broadband available everywhere by 2030 unless LEO satellites take off (no pun intended).
The frequencies will probably be completly reused by then
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Let's hope not. Trip has said there is very little interest in the spectrum that will remain after the repack is complete.
What will happen is the demise of multiple local broadcasters, excepting in the very large market stations. Some markets already have it where one set of reporters are on multiple local networks and there are other markets where the broadcast is a mashup of several networks.
There just will not be enough advertising or carriage dollars to support the multiple overhead expenses.
There just will not be enough advertising or carriage dollars to support the multiple overhead expenses.
I believe AT&T will sell off the satellite business and Dish will keep on being Dish, just my 2 cents...
I can see Dish and OTA being dead by 2030. If we have a comprehensive coast to coast 5G network, why do we need Dish or OTA? Cable might be dead too.
Somebody is going to have to come up with a good DVR solution (Something that functions as well as the Hopper 3 with all of its features) before i consider streaming.
That's a BIG "if," my friend
Just a guess. If I could predict the future, I'd invest in stocks and play the lottery!
Netflix and Amazon Prime stores its programs so no DVR is needed for active programs. The problem comes when they decide to delete a movie or program. There are DVR and Cloud DVR solutions but they are more difficult to use than the Dish record function. There also are numerous contract problems with what can be recorded from streaming sources.
I see all local broadcasters going away. With the increase in available internet at the touch of your fingertips, local OTA is not important. Not for TV and not for news or media. There will become national CBS, ABC, Fox, and NBC(if they survive) with a new comer to the major player field, CW. CW will rebrand, after all the mega media mergers complete by then, and be something like the CWDC or something stupid like that...
Here would be a fun thought. Dish and CBS merger into the large direct to consumer broadcast ever, and uses Showtime and CBS to destroy ATT. CBSNews becomes a valid news site worth watching.
I think OTA will be around for a long time especially with more and more cord cutters are putting up antennas. They have popped up like crazy the past few years since the translators went to digital and a few more were added. We have 16 OTA signals now in our rural area from 5 OTA translators. The tourists that have homes here (Seaside OR), no longer need to sub to cable or satellite and it is a waste when no one is there. An OTA antenna works fine. They can get the news from 6 nets, METV, Comet, Get TV, Decades, and other channels for free.
People have been forecasting the end of newspapers for decades and the end of radio for a while. Hasn't happened. I don't think local OTA is going away in the next 50 years, ESPECIALLY in smaller markets. Local news and weather is too important to people. Nothing can match the immediacy of a local broadcast. Cells? Only if you have cell towers. Internet? Only if you have cable/fiber.
People WANT their local news & weather. Now, maybe there will be more consolidation and you'll end up with 1-2 local broadcasters, but I don't think it's going away.
People WANT their local news & weather. Now, maybe there will be more consolidation and you'll end up with 1-2 local broadcasters, but I don't think it's going away.
The people that would be serviced by OTA would also generally be served by cell towers.
And the ones that aren't wouldn't be, like my folks in Upstate NY, who get neither.
