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I must have an extremely distorted sense of how many people still watch broadcast television seeing that Sinclair is still, apparently, relevant.
I would have guessed this would have done more harm to their market and teaching them to seek out alternatives and break their habits.
I convinced my boomer parents to finally cut cable TV in favor of Netflix, but also helped them set up OTA antennas for "news" and "sports."
Now they watch almost entirely OTA TV and barely any streaming. womp, womp.
Every time I go over there they're just mindlessly absorbing advertisements and other propaganda like it's nothing. I can't stand it.
To be fair, I use broadcast OTA and I have an antenna on my roof. It saves money, and I get to watch most of the shows I watch. It also cut down on my streaming bill. I ended up writing some emails to two of my local stations describing my feelings about capitulating to the adminstration, as well as, my feelings on the Nexstar Tegna merger. I advocated for the disbandment of the ownership and shift toward local. One actually reached back out and said they were going to shop for a local business/person to buy their station. Funnily enough, it was the Sinclair station.
Same here, and Sinclair made it a point to buy up local news. Since the Sinclair purchase, the most reputable seattle new station has turned into absolute trash.
There's a big age gap, but also a wealth gap. Our inability (refusal) to extend broadband to rural areas and make it a basic utility rather than a luxury means you still have large chunks of the country that get all their media through the cartelized broadcast racket.
I watch broadcast TV at night. I actually rewatched The Office a few times with it.
There are perhaps dozens of us.
I guess it makes sense reruns are still a thing. It’s been so long since I’ve watched OTA TV it would probably be a surreal experience.
You can definitely tell now, especially looking at the length and content of commercials, that they know their primary audience is mostly old people having the TV on for company.