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After all the amazing press Netflix and streaming received during the period of cheap money, there’s a growing recognition that was all unsustainable PR and streaming is recreating exactly what it claimed it would destroy: cable.

“This ad-centric future of TV looks a little like Netflix around 2022, but it looks more like something older: basic cable.”

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Paris Marx
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Streaming discussions always make me think back to a quote by Thomas Streeter about cable’s own unfulfilled technological promise: “the cable fable is a story of repeated utopian high hopes followed by repeated disappointments… Cable was to end television oligopoly; instead it has merely provided an arena for the formation of a new oligopoly.”

If we wanted to, we could’ve seen through the streaming fantasy from the beginning. https://onezero.medium.com/break-up-the-media-giants-61bf9b5ae8c2

Break Up the Media Giants - OneZero

For decades, corporate consolidation has been judged almost exclusively on whether it would raise prices for consumers, ignoring how the market power of massive conglomerates can have broader…
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