You aren't wrong that as quality drops there are naturally fewer customers, but coming from someone close to the industry, streaming services are actually a huge factor. writers are often payed royalties when their shows air on network television. However with the trend of shorter seasons, there is less work to go around, and the non-transparent nature of streaming makes royalties impossible. It's become much harder to find long term writing gigs as opposed to week and month long "writers rooms", which can pay well, but do not last long enough to be sustainable.
I still believe that the reason for the drop in viewership is primarily because the content is bad, not because a new style of service came out.
With that said, even if what you're saying is truly the primary cause, I still disagree with saying it's a result of streaming services. Rather, it's a result of new pay models becoming the norm. That just happens to be correlated with streaming services. Changes often occur correlated with other changes, because it's an easy time to sneak them in. But it's important that we recognize the real cause.
The same is true for things like EVs. People vilify EVs, in part, because they can be remotely shut down and shit. But the thing is, that's not something inherent to EVs, and it's also not something that cannot be done with an ICE powered vehicle. By vilifying EVs as such, we are focusing on the wrong problem, instead of seeing the real problem which is remote shut down in cars.
Likewise, these people are vilifying streaming services because the pay structures are bad. But the thing is, that's not something inherent to streaming services, and it's also not something that cannot be done with network television. By vilifying streaming services as such, we are focusing on the wrong problem, instead of seeing the real problem which is the new pay structure.
You aren't wrong that as quality drops there are naturally fewer customers, but coming from someone close to the industry, streaming services are actually a huge factor. writers are often payed royalties when their shows air on network television. However with the trend of shorter seasons, there is less work to go around, and the non-transparent nature of streaming makes royalties impossible. It's become much harder to find long term writing gigs as opposed to week and month long "writers rooms", which can pay well, but do not last long enough to be sustainable.
I still believe that the reason for the drop in viewership is primarily because the content is bad, not because a new style of service came out.
With that said, even if what you're saying is truly the primary cause, I still disagree with saying it's a result of streaming services. Rather, it's a result of new pay models becoming the norm. That just happens to be correlated with streaming services. Changes often occur correlated with other changes, because it's an easy time to sneak them in. But it's important that we recognize the real cause.
The same is true for things like EVs. People vilify EVs, in part, because they can be remotely shut down and shit. But the thing is, that's not something inherent to EVs, and it's also not something that cannot be done with an ICE powered vehicle. By vilifying EVs as such, we are focusing on the wrong problem, instead of seeing the real problem which is remote shut down in cars.
Likewise, these people are vilifying streaming services because the pay structures are bad. But the thing is, that's not something inherent to streaming services, and it's also not something that cannot be done with network television. By vilifying streaming services as such, we are focusing on the wrong problem, instead of seeing the real problem which is the new pay structure.