What’s Left Of Cable TV Is Slowly Going To Hell::We just got done noting how 2023 was finally the year that streaming fully surpassed traditional TV in terms of overall paying subscribers. A very obvious “cord cutting” trend that executives spent years claiming was fake or a fad is now the majority norm. But what’s left of traditional cable TV isn’t doing so well.  Broadcast…

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We should all consider broadcast tv … at least if we occasionally like live video, like sports. I’m not subscribing to an expensive new service for the handful of nfl games I watch in a year, for example

Actually, I do kind of wonder whether sports moving to exclusive streaming channels has affected sports bars. I’ve never gone to such a place intentionally to watch a specific sport, but I’m tempted to, over subscribing to a new expensive streaming service

Before streaming, my TiVo was able to mitigate excessive advertising (and let me watch shows in a fraction of the time), I should look for something like that

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