Sci/Tech Netflix CEO says broadcast TV will be dead in 16 years

[tom_mai78101]

During a speech Monday in Mexico City regarding Netflix’s burgeoning presence in Latin America, CEO Reed Hastings explained how broadcast television will be another casualty of evolution. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hastings claimed “broadcast TV will probably last until 2030,” painting broadcast TV as “kind of like the horse — you know, the horse was good until we had the car.”

Hastings has been spreading the gospel of broadcast TV’s demise for years. Back in April 2013, in an 11-page document posted on Netflix’s website, the maverick CEO predicted a world with no channel bundles and that “over the coming decades internet TV will replace linear TV.” In the year and half since the document was posted, HBO, Showtime and CBS have all announced standalone apps, while satellite provider Dish Network is preparing an over-the-top Internet pay-TV service featuring bundles of Disney-owned properties like ESPN as well as A&E and others.

Netflix CEO Predicts Broadcast TV Will Die By 2030 | Digital Trends

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings claims Nielsen's rating system is "irrelevant" and broadcast television will be extinct in less than 20 years.

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[Accname]

Completely agree. For me, it is already dead for a couple of years.
On the internet I can watch whatever I want whenever I want it. Why would anybody still use broadcast TV? Its just stupid.

 

[Varine]

It's got it's benefits. Sometimes I don't want to watch anything in particular or don't know what I want to watch, or I don't even care and don't want to make a decision, I just want something to do. But the TV provides a finite set of shows at any given moment, so it's kind of nice (admittedly it always ends up on Discovery, History, or NatGeo).

 

[tom_mai78101]

It's got it's benefits. Sometimes I don't want to watch anything in particular or don't know what I want to watch, or I don't even care and don't want to make a decision, I just want something to do. But the TV provides a finite set of shows at any given moment, so it's kind of nice (admittedly it always ends up on Discovery, History, or NatGeo).

Don't forget a whole lot of other channels you won't be watching.

 

[The Helper]

10 years later and broadcast TV is still a thing and not looking like its going anywhere soon...