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Number of Streaming Shows Overtakes Basic Cable, Broadcast For First Time (variety.com)
schwit1 shares a report from Variety: Streaming services snatched their biggest piece of the TV pie ever in 2018. According to FX's annual report on the number of scripted originals on TV, the number of streaming shows has surpassed the number of basic cable and broadcast shows for the first time ever. Out of 495 scripted originals that aired in 2018, 160 of them did so on a streaming platform. That is compared to 146 on broadcast and 144 on basic cable. Pay cable accounted for the remaining 45 shows. Streaming shows also saw the biggest increase year-to-year, growing from 117 last year. Broadcast dipped slightly, dropping from 153 in 2017. Basic cable saw a more sharp decline, compared to the 175 shows that aired on basic cable the previous year. Pay cable was up slightly from 42.
On a percentage basis, streaming shows now account for approximately one third of all scripted originals, with approximately 32%. Broadcast made up 30% and basic cable 29%, with pay cable making up 9%. The total number of shows across all of TV was up again as well, rising from 487 in 2017. The year-to-year growth was less than that of previous years, however. For example, the number of shows grew from 455 to 487 between 2016 and 2017. The 495 scripted originals this year was also off from FX Networks CEO John Landgraf's prediction that 520 such shows would air this year.
On a percentage basis, streaming shows now account for approximately one third of all scripted originals, with approximately 32%. Broadcast made up 30% and basic cable 29%, with pay cable making up 9%. The total number of shows across all of TV was up again as well, rising from 487 in 2017. The year-to-year growth was less than that of previous years, however. For example, the number of shows grew from 455 to 487 between 2016 and 2017. The 495 scripted originals this year was also off from FX Networks CEO John Landgraf's prediction that 520 such shows would air this year.
would never work on a paid streaming site.. there's more than enough idiots on youtube to watch for free.
Also, Trump resigned and volunteered for 8 years of jail time.
Not a single one of them was worth watching...
Commercials on cable and no commercials on streaming, guess which will win, like duhh.
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58 million videos?
Anyone?
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THANK GOD!!!
Unfortunately the article only talks about how many shows are being produced. I’d be more interested in relative viewership numbers.
Why it matters: Apple is supposedly starting to produce tons of shows... but is anyone going to watch them? And how many people are actually subscribing to CBS All Access for more than one month?
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The only thing keeping me on Cable TV is live sports, DVR, and my wife has a few shows she watches. I do like how cable is separated from the internet modem/router and I can re-boot it without taking down the TV. With SlingTV, DirecTV, Playstation Vue much cheaper than cable I am getting ready to switch to internet based. They have cloud DVR's so you save some electricity also
Not surprising, since Netflix seems to greenlight anything that even remotely looks like a script.
I think I am going on 10 years since I last paid for cable or satellite TV subscription. Locals through antenna and the rest streaming.
Darn, and I really trusted libtards Democrats would keep my medical records safe and secure. Oh well, the carbon tax racket still has potential though...
God bless centrist Republicans for stopping the Democrat's far-left LGBT extremist agenda. Nazis were National Socialist Democrats too, you know.
... to choose from.
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It is the poor customer service. Companies would rather have customers who are looking for the very first chance to ditch their services than loyal customers who want to keep buying. Streaming services seem to have cracked the code, not that it was a very difficult code to crack
Why Cable?
I don't want to watch when someone says I should.
I don't want to pay to record it.
I don't want to pay to record it, and also pay for the storage for commercials.
I don't want to pay to watch highly compressed, commercial laden content.
I don't want to pay for an expensive, slow, crashy, power hungry cable box.
I don't want to pay for a cable box for every tv, so I can watch stale static commercial laden content.
Can you hear me now? Cable TV execs?
And it doesn't mean anybody is watching them. That isn't an 'accomplishment' or even a metric, just an indicator of the wealth of whomever is funding the pile of crap. Quantity has no inherent magical powers. Silicon Valley is definitely peopled with shallow trophy babies at this point. 'I have the *biggest* pile of turds! I win! I WIIIIIN!'
Is that over the air networks demand I have a cable subscription to stream shows freely available over the air. AND the streaming shows still have commercials.
It was not. Troll.
very true