YTTV vs. Disney - what a PITA!

This YoutubeTV v. Disney dispute really sucks!

The way YTTV has handled communication has been a nightmare. Pulling all the channels right before a stacked college football weekend was dumb too... the worst part (to me) is they took our local affiliate completely down. Disney doesn't own WSB so why was it removed?!

Its hard to pick a side since you have a multi-billion dollar company on one side, and a multi-trillion dollar company on the other! Which CEO gets the bigger yacht this year?

I bought an OTA antenna and getting rid of YTTV ... probably going to pick up Sling BLUE so my wife can get her Bravo, E!, etc ...

What a pain in the a$$ ...

 

I have Sling....something....so my mom can get her AE, HGTV, etc.....

The move from old TV broadcast, to cable and now to 18 different 'services' you have to buy to get the same stuff 1 cable tv company had is fkn rtrded....I hate it. I barely watch any TV or even netflix type anymore...just watch regular YT videos mostly.

 

Just another money grab from Disney. It's a ploy to get people to switch to Hulu. Screw them.

 

my buddy had to create some fake email accounts for "free trials" of a Tubo to circumvent missing the FL vs GA game.
And yeah what a grift for streaming... makes satellite look like little league.

 

They are still trying to recover from the $5B Kimmel screwup. They FAFO the 1st amendment.

 

They lost 1.7 million viewers.

 

And I'm sure none of them will ever go back. You know, like everyone who quit the NFL forever during kneeling thing.

 

Of course you do.

 

I never went back. Never will either. Also gave up on 99% of MLB a few years ago due to their wokeness.

I also dropped cable TV and refuse to pay for any streaming service. I hate the ads on YT, but better than the alternative.

 

They do. All the platforms can and do return numbers fairly quickly. Our system can tell you when they started watching, how long they watched, what shows played during that time frame and how many total devices were tuned to channels. The metrics are way better than they used to be. Particularly for IP based streaming platforms. If it was made as easy to cancel a service as it is to sign up for one then losing 1.2 million viewers could conceivably be a 30 minute event.

 

No. Part of the viewership for Kimmel is OTA. He's being delivered to a lot of folks over IP. They can very well track that viewership. That fancy smart TV connected to your network at home also reports back to someone when it tuned to an OTA channel.

 

OTA viewing can be (and IS) measured if your TV is connected to the Internet.

Regardless of viewership, all late night shows have been losing their audience. Viewership today is about 50% of what it was ten years ago.

 

The FM radio stats have always confused me as to how they derive the numbers for those. Certainly, before cars were snitching on you to the manufacturer.