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US pay-TV subscriber base eroding at record pace (www.lightreading.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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US pay-TV subscriber base eroding at record pace::undefined

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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would watch about 16 minutes before giving up.

In the old days flow TV was max 25-30% ads, how can people live with 50% ads? At that rate it will be "Find the content" so in a few years with 90% ads watching a 45 minute show would take 7.5 hours.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There won't be 45 minute shows. It'll be "Ow, my balls!" and cut to commercial.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Remember when broadcast TV showed commercials on the 15 minute mark, 2-3 at a time for 30 minutes each, maybe more between shows? Commercials seemed like a reasonable tradeoff, plus were predictable so you could fit it in with other things. They dug their own grave, making commercials more intrusive, harder to skip, more frequent. …. Pepperidge Farms remembers

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