Earlier on Monday, ABC announced Kimmel’s return, after a backlash in the creative community and among others who said that The Walt Disney Co. was capitulating to the Trump administration
Earlier on Monday, ABC announced Kimmel’s return, after a backlash in the creative community and among others who said that The Walt Disney Co. was capitulating to the Trump administration
I must have an extremely distorted sense of how many people still watch broadcast television seeing that Sinclair is still, apparently, relevant.
I would have guessed this would have done more harm to their market and teaching them to seek out alternatives and break their habits.
I convinced my boomer parents to finally cut cable TV in favor of Netflix, but also helped them set up OTA antennas for “news” and “sports.”
Now they watch almost entirely OTA TV and barely any streaming. womp, womp.
Every time I go over there they’re just mindlessly absorbing advertisements and other propaganda like it’s nothing. I can’t stand it.
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Same here, and Sinclair made it a point to buy up local news. Since the Sinclair purchase, the most reputable seattle new station has turned into absolute trash.
There’s a big age gap, but also a wealth gap. Our inability (refusal) to extend broadband to rural areas and make it a basic utility rather than a luxury means you still have large chunks of the country that get all their media through the cartelized broadcast racket.
I watch broadcast TV at night. I actually rewatched The Office a few times with it.
There are perhaps dozens of us.
I guess it makes sense reruns are still a thing. It’s been so long since I’ve watched OTA TV it would probably be a surreal experience.
You can definitely tell now, especially looking at the length and content of commercials, that they know their primary audience is mostly old people having the TV on for company.