Tag: Cable TV

A lot has happened in 2024 impacting the future of many cable TV networks. These events have forced some cable TV networks to make dramatic changes including Adult Swim, which starts at 5 PM on Cartoon Network. Warner Bros. Discovery has rebranded TruTV as a sports network. Boomerang has suddenly found its parent company launching…

In a move that could send ripples of concern through the television news industry, Scripps is shutting down the national news programming produced by its Scripps News unit. This decision will result in an estimated 200 job cuts and marks a significant retreat from the company’s ambitious effort to offer national news coverage across its…

Cord-cutting shows no sign of slowing down, with embattled cable TV companies losing another 1.62 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2024. This decline precedes the recent public dispute between DIRECTV and Disney, which further underscores the challenges faced by the pay-TV industry. The total number of pay-TV subscribers has now plummeted to just…

Cable TV is continuing to lose viewership in 2024 as many Americans switch over to streaming and other methods to watch TV. According to a new report from Nielsen, cable TV now accounts for just 26.7% of all TV viewership and streaming accounts for 41.4%. Broadcast TV is holding strong with 20.3% of viewership and…

Cord cutting has been hitting cable TV hard this year as Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery report having to write down almost $15 billion in value on their cable TV networks. In a sobering second-quarter earnings report released yesterday, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) disclosed a massive $9.1 billion write down attributed to its television networks.…

Over the last few years, the cost of cable TV has continued to climb. Since the start of 2023, Spectrum Cable TV has raised its prices three different times on different plans. Comcast and DIRECTV have also raised their prices multiple times. So, just how much is the average cable TV subscriber paying? We asked…

A lot has happened in 2024 impacting the future of many cable TV networks. These changes have forced some cable TV networks to make dramatic changes including Adult Swim, which starts at 5 PM on Cartoon Network. Warner Bros. Discovery has rebranded TruTV as a sports network. Boomerang has suddenly found its parent company launching…

Have you noticed cable TV bills continue to increase? Did you also notice the number of channels in some of these packages have decreased? Most noticeably, Comcast has been moving some sports channels to more expensive packages with some of its RSNs. This has resulted in Bally Sports dropping Comcast as it fights with them…

Cable TV networks are facing a doubly hard situation not only with subscribers leaving in the millions but also advertisers cutting back in both the cable and streaming arenas. Many cable TV networks thought streaming would keep advertisers and Americans happy, but streaming services like MAX, Peacock, Paramount+, and Disney+ have failed to replace revenue…