The Hollywood Reporter declares Linear Television is in endgame decline

[Jman]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/end-of-television-streaming-shows-deals-1236133596/
 

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In fact, 14 of the top 50 TV broadcasts in 2024 were exclusive to pay TV bundle services, according to data from Nielsen, all of them football games on Fox or ESPN (CBS streams its games on Paramount+, while NBC Sports events are on Peacock). The Oscars also cracked the top 100.

Come next year, that number will be 0 of 50. Every single thing on Nielsen’s most watched list will be available in a stand-alone streamer in addition to the big bundles.

I think we all knew this was going to happen, but now that sports have migrated to streaming, the last true value add for linear television is gone.

Which is terrible news for a once cutting edge alternative animation block 

Edited February 12 by Jman

[Blatch]

Meanwhile, I can only stream Common Side Effects on Max, as opposed to watching it on-demand through Xfinity. To me, streaming services still feel like a racket, but I guess I'm gonna have to start putting up with them.

[OwlChemist81]

4 hours ago, Jman said:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/end-of-television-streaming-shows-deals-1236133596/
 

I think we all knew this was going to happen, but now that sports have migrated to streaming, the last true value add for linear television is gone.

Which is terrible news for a once cutting edge alternative animation block 

I had to reread that for it to make any damn sense to me, but it DOES make sense.

I don't think it will quite be 0 yet, but it will be a number in the single digits.

[MasqueradeOverture]

Cable in itself will die. As someone who works close to the matter, it's only time before Comcast stops offering Xfinity cable in favor of bundling through Peacock and Paramount (both which have their respective company's linear channels for no extra cost).

As soon as Disney+ and Max does something similar, game over.

[Raptorpat]

The only counterpoint I have is that I have seen linear broadcasting recently on the stream services, in which case the format isn't necessarily dead but we're trading out cable companies for the streaming companies.