TV is a losing value proposition in general. It's a race to the bottom. Top programs from each of these are getting less viewers than online content from e.g. Y

TV is a losing value proposition in general. It's a race to the bottom. Top programs from each of these are getting less viewers than online content from e.g. Youtube or other places. Lots of youtube channels reaching millions of people with each video. The thing is that most things worth reporting are distributed widely via internet based sources. The half life of any exclusive news is basically minutes. After that, world + dog is reporting it. So, none of these channels ever have much in terms of exclusivity and in fact they rely heavily on online as well for getting their news in the first place. Anyone who cares already knows long before CNN bother to report inbetween commercials, the weather, more commercials, and some fake toothpaste smile nobody yapping on for ten minutes about god knows what interrupted by some reporter reporting absolutely nothing whatsoever happened since the last time they reported the same 40 minutes ago. If you strip away all the filler content on CNN, you have about 2 minutes worth of content per hour. The signal to noise ratio is terrible. Unacceptably low for anyone actually interested in news.