Did you know that so far this year, every minutes, 6 people ditched cable TV. That's 8640 people a day! And not unlike the last presidential election, the losing team is blaming everyone else. Even people on their own team!
Like everything though, it was just simply greed that did the cable industry in. The biggest pointed finger though is aimed at Netflix. I think that in the beginning, they didn't take Netflix seriously. Then, when they split the company into 2 parts, DVD rentals and Streaming, the cable industry and the business world in general, was sure that would lead to the demise of Netflix. Consumers would not tolerate that! Well, we did! And it's awesome! No more commercials, no more high costs, who cares about sports! Then came Sling TV and Hulu. Now you could watch your favorite TV shows the next day! Ahhhhh. Life if good. On top of all that, now with HD TV, you can just buy an antennae and get all the local channels for free!
Cable should've stood up to the networks a long time ago. For instance, Viacom owns MTV. So if Time Warner wants to add MTV to it's lineup, Viacom says ok, but you also have to carry MTV2 VH1, CMT, Comedy Central, BET, Spike, Nickelodeon (all 5 of them) and TV Land. Time Warner says, no, we just want MTV. Viacom says, no deal. So Time Warner caves is because their customers want MTV. Now the customer has to pay for 15 channels just to get ONE. That's why there are 500 channels on TV and only 30 that you watch! It's so dumb. The consumer was bound to get fed up with that.
you know who the BIGGEST loser is though!?!?!? The news media!!! Because if people are ditching cable, they're ditching MSNBC, CNN, FOX, and all the rest! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I love that!!!!
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