Broadcast TV in general is dying. It has been for several years now.
I mean really ask yourself, what are the highest rated shows right now and what are they being watched on?
Entertainment is not a zero sum game. Broadcast audience measurement. While not the largest portion of viewers, broadcast does serve a large group of Americans every day.
The affiliate system on the other hand is going to die. It is inevitable. Retransmission consent costs and major networks taking the lions share of those revenues from affiliates while putting the best content in their own streaming silos -exclusively- is going to likely be the culprits.
Overall, broadcast is viable even if most of the viewership for its content is via OTT/streaming.
I said dying, not dead. It’ll never truly completely die. But will eventually zombify into a casting of its former self.
I feel that it’s likely will cease video and sound at some point and the licensees of the spectrum will be use it for data casting. It’s a wildly efficient mechanism for a one to many situation.
My guess would be reality tv slop on discovery or something.
It’s a shame because I find myself missing the broadcast. I’m nostalgic for a block of programming a human put together. Maybe something with a VJ in between the shows or movies to chat a little.
My guess would be reality tv slop on discovery or something.
Nope
These guys need to start their own media company.
Conam has a podcast company
With blackjack and hookers
Conan is a treasure.
late night tv isn’t dying it’s being murdered by media cos and streamers who are so consumed with greed they keep pushing prices higher and higher
I mean moreso both of these things are symptoms of “line must always go up”.
Late night TV isn’t dying. Like many things it is just failing to adapt.
Advertising is pulling out because nobody watched the show LIVE not because nobody watches the show. The vast majority of viewers watch on YouTube the next day.
It’s the same thing over again, Napster showed what people wanted and we got iTunes instead. Torrenting showed what people wanted and we got Netflix instead. People want to watch Colbert but as always the industry says “my way or the highway”.
if it was that simple i’m sure Netflix or some other streamer would offer a big name tons of money to do a streaming “late night” show. but I guess the institutional knowledge to run a daily show like that is not easy or cheap to replicate.
It’s a weird thing that so much competition for our attention is actually a horrific aspect of the future.
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Good thing he’s absolutely not. Colbert is a liberal corporate shill at best. His role is to be a wet blanket on leftist politics.
Edit: Lots of downvotes but no counter arguments here. I am always disappointed to see Lemmy users blindly supporting capitalists.
you didn’t really make any kind of argument to counter, just an empty assertion.
If you find someone pushes back on leftist policies maybe consider they are just centrist, not “shills”.
The article itself is basically an empty assertion.
Colbert was bought and paid for by corporate media and he has now outlived his usefulness to them.
They kept him around for so long because he didn’t seem to have any issues with pushing capitalist propaganda regardless of how it hurts people.
What really got me was his disinformation campaign about vaping. The science was already out at that point and he ignored it because he was told to ignore it.
This is just one example.
well firstly vaping isn’t a left/right biased issue.
what disinformation about it did he push?
even if it was incorrect information, it doesn’t mean he was paid to push it. he could have just been, you know, wrong.
It’s a capitalism Vs science issue. I’m not saying he’s right wing, I’m saying he’s a capitalist that puts profit over truth.
It’s just so transparent.
At this time the NIH studies were already out and just being ignored because they were inconvenient to corporate America.
Colbert doesn’t want solutions to anything. He wants problems to make fun of.
Colbert doesn’t want solutions to anything. He wants problems to make fun of.
You do realize the man is a comedian? Making fun of problems is kinda his job description.
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Let it die. A show this frequent can only end up being boring.
That was the point of his speech. He’s basically encouraging Colbert to follow in his footsteps with a podcast and a travel show on HBO.
Cut out the middleman. Fuck HBO, and fuck Zaslav. He should start his own show and post it on YouTube or Nebula or even just his own damn website. And then he can sell it to Netflix or HBO or any of the other streaming sites.
depends what kind of show you’re talking about. podcasts and basic interview shows are doable independently, but more in depth shows require institutional knowledge for production, research, writing, cinematography, etc, not to mention liquid cash to fund it all. It’s a huge undertaking to start something like that from scratch. I’m sure that’s why Conan does his travel show on HBO.
