Cable (and satellite) TV will be gone in a couple of years. I’m ready to leave with 500 channels of QVC and “four hour erections!” Content on TV today is simply awful.
Maybe, as people more and more cease to bother with content that is vapid.
The internet has proven to be equally entertaining today (well thanks for at least something, You Tube, Facebook et al.) and it can be had at a far cheaper rate.
Content may be bad, but presentation is even worse. I was trying to watch some TV this afternoon (I usually spend time on the computer, but wanted to take a break), and it was almost all commercials.
One used to be able to flip between two or three channels and keep up with the stories, but now it’s just flipping from one commercial to another. TCM is the only one that seems to be still watchable.
I think I lasted about 10 minutes.
Advertisers are idiots for buying the time, and the programmers are idiots in how they structure the programming.
I cut the cord last December and now have only about 60-70 channels of QVC and “four hour erections!” but they're all FREE. I don't miss any of it, I set up an off-the air antenna for four TVs. Netflix and Hulu fill in the gaps for about $20 a month with no commercials.