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Netflix to Boast Larger Audience Than Big Four Networks Within Year
Working from the 10 billion hours of streaming the company reported in the first quarter, FBR analyst Barton Crockett says that, if Netflix were rated by Nielsen as are ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, it would have a 2.6 rating over 24 hours, already on par with ABC and NBC.
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Glad to see this as I am a recent cable cord cutter.
I haven't had cable in years! I don't miss it.
I got rid of mine in September of last year,I have not missed it at all.
We actually dropped our cable company because it was so much cheaper just to have Netflix and use amazon prime's streaming service.
Cable is stupidly expensive. I can believe what some people will/can pay. The weirdest part is how little you get for the money. It sounds so fantastic to have hundreds of channels, but there is so much garbage you're lucky to find anything watchable much of the time... and the ads! THE ADS!! I'm so spoiled by streaming now that I can't sit through them.
Plus, with streaming I can watch a show when I want. Even with On Demand and other such services sometimes you miss that one episode you had to catch.
I love being able to watch whenever I want, and being able to pause and rewind (is it even called that anymore? Am I officially old? I almost said "back stream" but that sounds very wrong, lol.) is the greatest. :)
It does..Hundreds of stations but nothing on any of them worth watching..And it's got to the point where the lion's share of the program is ads. We cut out cable years ago.
The irony is that one of cable's original selling points was that it's a paid service and therefore had no need to run ads!
I have those two + Hulu. I have a outside antenna & Roku.
Hulu is my least favorite. For the price of Netflix, with a smaller selection of titles, I have to sit through ads. Isn't that the opposite of how capitalism is supposed to work? Like, I'm a socialist, but darn-it if we're going to continue to have a capitalist system, I'd rather do it without the ads.
The tv shows my wife watches are on Hulu so that is why we have it.
I don't doubt it. Netflix and others like it are the future of entertainment.
They are indeed. And if the big 4 are not worried, they very well should be.
Netflix finally landing in Australia has been an amazing thing. The major paytv service here tried to compete by teaming up with two free-to-air tv networks to create "competition" and failed miserably gaining only 100k subscribers each compared to the 1M odd that Netflix got. Due to licencing agreements here, the paytv service has the rights to show certain TV series which limits what Netflix can show, but that didn't stop almost everyone I talked to from jumping ship and moving over to Netflix.
I've had it since it came out, and can't complain about the service at all.