Business Insider’s Henry Blodgett thinks the collapse of broadcast television is imminent. “The only time we watch TV news live is when there’s a crisis or huge event happening somewhere,” he writes. “If not for live sports, which are consumed by exactly one member of our household (me), there is no way we would be paying for cable TV or any other kind of traditional pay TV anymore.”
I suspect there are a lot of Blodgetts out there just waiting to pull the plug on their cable, just as they pulled the plug on their home phones. And while he doesn’t directly address cable news, it stands to reason their fortunes are tied to this trend. This is probably a good thing. For a variety of reasons, cable news has become increasingly unwatchable.
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