They are TV’s ghosts — networks that somehow survive with little reason to watch them anymore
They are TV’s ghosts — networks that somehow survive with little reason to watch them anymore
admin 2024/03/03 02:14The list of memorable characters and personalities who entered popular culture through cable television is long: Honey Boo Boo. Tony Soprano. Lizzie McGuire. Don Draper. Jon Stewart. Beavis and Butt-Head. Chip and Joanna Gaines. SpongeBob SquarePants.
Pick your own favorites. Chances are there won’t be many more to join them.
Few cable and satellite networks are a force anymore, the byproduct of sudden changes in how people entertain themselves. Several have lost more than half their audiences in a decade. They’ve essentially become ghost networks, filling their schedules with reruns and barely trying to push toward anything new.
Says Doug Herzog, once an executive at Viacom who oversaw MTV, Comedy Central and other channels: “These networks, which really meant so much to the viewing public and generations that grew up with them, have kind of been left for dead.”
Learn more: https://apnews.com/article/television-tv-cable-mtv-ghost-networks-01780bd6be10a4a7e85b795000d6db4e
Pick your own favorites. Chances are there won’t be many more to join them.
Few cable and satellite networks are a force anymore, the byproduct of sudden changes in how people entertain themselves. Several have lost more than half their audiences in a decade. They’ve essentially become ghost networks, filling their schedules with reruns and barely trying to push toward anything new.
Says Doug Herzog, once an executive at Viacom who oversaw MTV, Comedy Central and other channels: “These networks, which really meant so much to the viewing public and generations that grew up with them, have kind of been left for dead.”
Learn more: https://apnews.com/article/television-tv-cable-mtv-ghost-networks-01780bd6be10a4a7e85b795000d6db4e
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