http://www.thewrap.com/disney-loses-suffers-sever-cable-subscriber-losses/

That includes ESPN, which dropped from 95 million subscribers in 2013 to 93 million subscribers.

I feel this is a sign of the times...hit it Petula!...

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Though original shows do bring-in money...it doesn't bring people...supposedly.

Maybe it's time that The Disney Cable Shows should form "Vault Disney Channel"...I'm sure that Turner Classic Movies...based on Disney's rival Time-Warner...is getting more revenue!

Please channels...play the originals and new stuff...but keep the classics...make new friends, but keep the old!

Television is in a really awkward spot these days, where it's too cash strapped to invest enough time and money in producing high quality original programming, yet it's also too cash strapped to re-air its higher quality older content regularly because of the royalties and licensing fees they'll have to cough up, not to mention the struggle they'll face attracting.advertisers.

So yeah, it's indeed a sign of the times.

Television is in a really awkward spot these days, where it's too cash strapped to invest enough time and money in producing high quality original programming, yet it's also too cash strapped to re-air its higher quality older content regularly because of the royalties and licensing fees they'll have to cough up, not to mention the struggle they'll face attracting.advertisers.

So yeah, it's indeed a sign of the times.

I'm wishing Generation Y/Millenials would jump-up soon to the TV Stations. One may be another Brandon Tartikoff.

May people born and raised in the 80's like me, seem to have loved the new shows but would see a rerun of an older show. That's what I loved about broadcast television in the 80's, one moment they're playing "The Facts of Life" the next moment they'd play "Bewitched".

This doesn't even happen on cable channels anymore!

Television is in a really awkward spot these days, where it's too cash strapped to invest enough time and money in producing high quality original programming, yet it's also too cash strapped to re-air its higher quality older content regularly because of the royalties and licensing fees they'll have to cough up, not to mention the struggle they'll face attracting.advertisers.

So yeah, it's indeed a sign of the times.

This is why I like DVDs. At least 90% of the shows I watch are never shown on TV these days, as for the remaining 10% not only have they ran so often to the point they are BEYOND stale, but they are are butchered to he(Double Hockey Sticks) in order some advertiser (who I know exists, but have NO intention on purchasing their product) can get one more commercial (never mind they already have four or five commercials aired on a specific show) crammed into the hour. :angryfire.

I like the physical ownership, you can watch something you know WILL exist whenever you want to watch it. As for streaming you run the risk of firing up your computer, then logging on to one of those streaming servicing only to find out the show you wanted to watch has been yanked off because the "Rights" expired or they couldn't strike a deal with the studio or something else. If I purchase a DVD set I' have the freedom to watch it whenever I desire to. :D

We're coming up on the ninth anniversary of the date I "cut the cord". I"m glad I did this, and there is no way I'll return to "Appointment TV" anytime soon (I have 45,242 Reasons why as a matter of fact). And I know I'm not alone, as more and more people are canceling their subscriptions, more than 1,000,000 this year alone. :omg:

PS Next year is going to be EVEN WORSE, because it's an even-numbered year, and you know there will be a certain kind of advertising that are only ran on these kinds of years. :angryfire