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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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[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 11 months ago (7 children)

That said, many of the executives who ran cable TV into the ground have jumped ship to streaming, and are repeating many of the same mistakes without having learned much of anything from history or experience.

Why would anyone hire these people?

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is always the same pattern. The new thing is taken over by the same old players and it becomes shitty like the same old thing.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Write a script. Anyone could do it.

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