Less TV, More Online

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.waikato
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
In Britain, at least
<https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/07/punters_switching_off_telly_boxes_to_watch_youtube/>,
people are spending less time watching conventional broadcast TV and
more time watching vids on YouTube and Netflix.

In related news, famed (and feared) US ratings agency Nielsen
<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190805/08212442723/after-missing-cord-cutting-trend-nielsen-falls-apart.shtml>
has fallen on hard times as its broadcast (FTA and cable) company
customers suffer a similar trend. The irony was that they were the ones
forcing it not to make any measurements of the “cord-cutting”
phenomenon, because it made them look bad; and as a result its service
has now declined into irrelevance.
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