True, the on-demand part is better, but I'm mostly talking about the breadth of the catalog. Turner was able to get broadcast rights to a whole bunch of movies

True, the on-demand part is better, but I'm mostly talking about the breadth of the catalog. Turner was able to get broadcast rights to a whole bunch of movies that the studios didn't really know what to do with. This is partly why The Shawshank Redemption is now one of the most beloved movies of all time. It was pretty lackluster at the box office, but then in the late 90s and 2000s it was just on TV all. the. time. A lot of people who might not otherwise have watched it got to see it. On demand is not that helpful if you don't want to watch any of the things that are available.