Streaming mergers are Hollywood’s last hope. The box office is soaring because of some awful, hyper-political movie. Thanks to streaming, the cable/satellite TV cash cow is dying. Almost every standalone streaming service other than Netflix loses billions of dollars due to inferior products.
All that remains is for Hollywood to try to reinvent the racket known as cable/satellite television through the integration of streaming.
In other words, the entertainment industry is using these mergers to trick Americans into paying more money for content they will never watch.
As I’ve explained for over a decade, the cable/satellite TV model has sustained a moribund entertainment industry for decades. More than 100 million households pay around $100 per month to their cable/satellite provider. Through these astronomical payments, these households subsidized dozens of channels they never watched, including CNN, MTV, and Comedy Central. But now, as the cord is being cut as people move to streaming, that 100 million figure is closer to his 60 million, costing Hollywood untold billions of dollars. And the number of households continues to decline.
Streaming won’t save Hollywood. Unlike cable/satellite TV, streaming is performance-based. Subscribe only if you want to watch content. I don’t subscribe to most of the content because it’s boring. So what will Hollywood do?
Well, it certainly doesn’t produce better content. Hollywood hates normal people and has no desire to entertain us. What makes it offensive is that it insults and offends us. Even if Hollywood wanted to create better content, that talent simply doesn’t exist anymore. Generations of inbreeding have created an industry full of freaks, fetishists, and weirdos who lack anything close to common sense.
So there will be a big merger…
Paramount has already speaking We informed Comcast about the Paramount+ and Peacock streaming merger. Currently, you can subscribe to both for $7 to $13 per month, depending on your tolerance for commercials. If they were to be integrated, these price points would almost certainly be lost. In other words, the only reason to subscribe to Paramount+ is if: Star Trek, after this potential merger, instead of paying $7 to $13, you would have to pay $13 to $18. With this merger, Star Trek Fans pay for Peacock whether they see it or not. This is the cable model of streaming. If you want to watch Fox News or classic Turner movies, you have to pay for CNN, MSNBC, Comedy Central, and ESPN.
Sports fans are about to be dealt a huge blow as ESPN, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox create a single streaming sports behemoth that will capture about 85 percent of sports programming. This is a big deal for sports fans. For example, if he only enjoys one sport, such as baseball, he would only have to pay $50 a month to subsidize all the sports programs he doesn’t watch.
What is the answer?
For sports fans, the only option is to stop being a sports fan.
For the rest of us, there’s a past that offered higher quality programming, mostly free through free streaming services like Pluto and FreeVee. Most people can buy a $25 antenna and receive all kinds of free channels, including broadcast networks.
It’s really stupid to pay for Hollywood’s crappy production costs these days. The biggest ducks will accept the price hikes that come with these mergers.
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