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Even among my less technologically advanced friends and family there's maybe only a handful of people who still watch shows regularly on cable television. My in
by sageabilly 11y ago
Even among my less technologically advanced friends and family there's maybe only a handful of people who still watch shows regularly on cable television. My in-laws watch TV shows but they record them and skip over the ads. Pretty much the only thing that I know of that anyone watches on cable and still sits through ads is live sports.
Watching cable networks flail around and completely fail to understand that their business model is not relevant anymore is always hilarious. Now that Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu have really good original programming there's even less of an incentive to have cable.
- ssharp 11y agoI'd love to "flail around" while still having two billion in annual profits.
- surge 11y agoThey're flailing because they're not showing growth and share holders hate that. If they show a 2% loss in subscribers or subscriber growth stagnates, that's enough for them to freak out, despite their profits.
- solotronics 11y agoI work for the commercial fiber part of a cable ISP and we have been growing 25%+ for dedicated commercial fiber for a few years now but the residential customer revenue is growing at a much lower rate.
- chrisseaton 11y agoBut don't the cable companies own Hulu? So they have realised the change is coming, and have already adapted.
- thefreeman 11y agoExcept Hulu (at least used to, it may have changed recently) still shows ads to their premium subscribers, which is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
- dragontamer 11y agoIt changed. There's an ad-free option on Hulu now.
- pinkrooftop 11y agoyep Comcast, Fox, and Disney own Hulu