Contemplating Life – Episode 100 – “The Death of Broadcast TV”

Update: 2025-09-27

Description

In this episode, I bemoan the lack of new or innovative content on broadcast TV based on the offerings of this new fall season. We also take a statistical look at the recent Emmy awards and notice that the few broadcast and basic cable shows nominated did not earn any wins. AppleTV+ and other streaming services dominated the landscape. Although all of my podcasts are listenable, this one includes charts and spreadsheets that you may want to view on the YouTube version.

Links of Interest for this episode

Note: Normally, I would provide links to every TV show mentioned, but this link list would be massive. Here are the Wikipedia articles I used as the basis of my research, as well as PDFs of spreadsheets I created to compile my statistics.

The 77th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards

2025-26 US Network Television Schedule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%9326_United_States_network_television_schedule

2025 Fall Broadcast TV Schedule: https://www.patreon.com/posts/2025-fall-tv-139875025

2025 Emmy Awards Sorted by Category: https://www.patreon.com/posts/2025-emmy-awards-139879938

2025 Emmy Awards Sorted by Network:https://www.patreon.com/posts/2025-emmy-awards-139880211

YouTube TV: https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/

Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradadgate/2024/08/08/the-future-of-television-is-broadcast--streaming-heres-why/

Civic Science article: https://civicscience.com/over-the-air-audience-tracker-preview-why-advertisers-should-watch-tv-antenna-users/

Cancellation of Jon Stewart from Apple TV+: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_with_Jon_Stewart#Cancellation

Inexpensive over-the-air DVR from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tablo-4-Tuner-Over-Air-DVR/dp/B0CQD65DVZ/

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