Streaming Is Cable Now
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🗓️ 4 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The number of TV streaming services is going up—and so is the cost and so are the number of ads. Cordcutters are finding themselves back to cable prices and inconveniences. And these changes don’t just impact the TV viewing experience - they impact the types of shows that get made in the first place.
Guest: Alex Cranz, managing editor at the Verge.
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| 0:00.0 | Alex Kranz has a lot of streaming services. |
| 0:07.0 | Technically Plex counts this one. |
| 0:14.0 | Netflix, Amazon Prime, Paramount. |
| 0:18.0 | I think Peacock right now? |
| 0:20.0 | Criterion. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, you've got deep cuts. Oh yeah, crunchy roll. I'm I'm all over the place. |
| 0:28.0 | Alex is the managing editor for The Fudge and she's certainly not alone with her long list of streaming services, all of which |
| 0:36.5 | can put a big dent in the wallet. |
| 0:39.6 | How much do you think you spend per month on streaming? Ooh, I don't even want to think about that more than I probably did when I had cable. Are they mostly like ads? Or do you pay to get rid of the ads? Oh, I pay to get rid of the ads. |
| 0:53.8 | I don't want to sit through them. |
| 0:55.4 | Same. |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah. Same. Same. |
| 0:59.0 | I asked about ads because last Monday Amazon Prime video became the latest streaming service to create an ad tier. |
| 1:06.0 | Customers either have to fork over an additional $2.99 a month or be assailed by ad breaks in the shows and movies they stream. |
| 1:14.0 | Amazon's ads are just one small window into how streaming is moving backwards. |
| 1:21.0 | Now originally streaming seemed like a way better deal than cable. You could pay for one or two streaming services and have access to a seemingly endless supply of ad-free high quality content. |
| 1:35.0 | But now there are so many different platforms. |
| 1:39.0 | Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, Max, Paramount, Apple TV, |
| 1:42.0 | plus, Amazon, Disney Plus, |
| 1:44.0 | YouTube TV, AMC Plus, |
| 1:46.0 | you get the idea. |
| 1:48.0 | And customers are finding that these services may be plentiful, |
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