TV-Related Predictions for 2020

[landtuna]

Fox will continue to junk it up with Masked Singer, Flirty Dancing, WWE, Empire and the like. Last Man Standing , due primarily to cast changes, might make it to season's end.

 

[Will_H_69_9]

my predictions for 2020 TV:

speaking of wrestling promotions, AEW Dark moves from Youtube to weekends on TBS while Dynamite remains on TNT. NJPW severs ties with AXS.TV and moves to CBS Sports Network and Paramount Network (after NJPW makes a deal with ViacomCBS to air their shows on those network). Sinclair Broadcasting shuts down ROH Wrestling after it's decline and scandals involving the promotion this year (which includes poor security at 1 event leading to a talent chewing out a fan backstage, a employee quitting and aring out stuff going on backstage, lack of concussion protocol which lead to their women's champ working with post concussion syndrome and then getting fired for speaking up about the lack of concussion protocol, etc, just type ROH scandals this year to know about it) and the loss of their working relationships with NJPW and CMLL (which would end up forming a partnership with AEW instead).

we aren't even done with the final week of the year and already I got a prediction halfway right as NJPW has cut ties with AXS TV. how ever, it looks like for now, the only way to see NJPW on US TV is through their streaming service NJPW World as well as the Fite streaming service. but the other half of the prediction could end up true if ViacomCBS wants to get in a bidding war with ESPN/Disney if NJPW decided they need a US TV home again, but NJPW at the point is a niche promotion in the US and should only focus on being a Japanese based promotion focusing on keeping their Japanese fan base in their homeland of Japan.

 

[CTListener]

we aren't even done with the final week of the year and already I got a prediction halfway right as NJPW has cut ties with AXS TV. how ever, it looks like for now, the only way to see NJPW on US TV is through their streaming service NJPW World as well as the Fite streaming service. but the other half of the prediction could end up true if ViacomCBS wants to get in a bidding war with ESPN/Disney if NJPW decided they need a US TV home again, but NJPW at the point is a niche promotion in the US and should only focus on being a Japanese based promotion focusing on keeping their Japanese fan base in their homeland of Japan.

Do you see any further acquisitions of wrestling and other combat sports for the ad-supported free internet service Pluto.TV? Right now, it's showing archived content from Impact wrestling, several MMA organizations, and DAZN boxing.

 

[crainbebo]

Fox will continue to junk it up with Masked Singer, Flirty Dancing, WWE, Empire and the like. Last Man Standing , due primarily to cast changes, might make it to season's end.

Well, with a new owner (Disney), what else can they do? 20th Century Fox has no part of the network anymore - the name is irrelevant. I am looking forward of course to another season of rapidly identifying songs on Beat Shazam this summer - casting site for next season went up a few weeks ago so Fox had to have given a quiet renewal. They and ABC's Match Game, Card Sharks, $100K Pyramid, etc. are what make summer TV fun.
And the Masked Singer is doing fantastic in the ratings. The finale got an 11 share. Not many shows can do that anymore, except football. The days of 40 shares went away in the '80s...thanks cable, satellite, DVRs, Netflix, DVD rentals, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+, may I go on...

 

[johnnya2k6]

This is preposterous.

I meant to say that the Season 3 premiere of The Masked Singer will get more viewers than the Oscars the following week; besides, more people tuned in to the Joe Millionaire finale in February 2003 (also on Fox) than the Oscars a month later (thankfully, their last in late March before moving to late February-early March the following year).

As for the series? It’ll probably finish in the Top 10 among all shows in both 18-49s and households, but not at #1.

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Well, with a new owner (Disney), what else can they do?

The network? Disney doesn't own the network.

 

[TVCOOL]

I like that NWA Powerrr prediction let add that either Ion or the CW gets syndication rights to air the show on Saturdays at 6:05 et/pt on their stations.

Some Sinclair stations cancel their second (or third ) replays of Ring of Honor Wrestling due to low ratings.

WWE Raw will finally get cut back to two hours airing at 8-10pm on USA with the third hour for the relaunch of WWE Sunday Night Heat airing on Sundays 6pm ET.

 

[EricStein]

Not being able to keep up subscriptions in the streaming era, one of the struggling "premium" cable TV services (either Starz or Epix) will shut down or merge into its bigger competition.

 

[CTListener]

Not being able to keep up subscriptions in the streaming era, one of the struggling "premium" cable TV services (either Starz or Epix) will shut down or merge into its bigger competition.

Since the 500-pound gorilla of the cable industry, Comcast, has already announced that it will be going with Epix, my money is on Starz falling.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

ESPN's recent gain of exclusive SEC football rights from CBS starting in 2023 leads to another round of conference realignment involving the Power Five conferences.

Including plans to expand the SEC and Big Ten into 16 team, four-division superconferences--with their own championship playoffs.

 

[anotherguyTN]

On the local area in Jackson, TN WJKT Fox 16, which is owned by Nexstar, could start to get their 9 PM CT news feed from WREG CBS 3 in Memphis, which is now also owned by Nexstar, since WLMT CW 30 was sold to Tegna.

I'm not sure when it happened (New Year's day or earlier?) but it turns out that WJKT dropped WLMT's news and have gone to infomercials during the 7 AM hour (The worst thing they could do. ) and reruns of Mike and Molly at 9 PM.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.businessinsider.com/new...twitch-wish-and-snapchat-embargo-1-pm-2019-10

Twitch is named as a party that is marketing themselves as Youtube for the Generation Z Demo. and the term "Viral Video" will focus more on Twitch than Youtube, Vimeo and Dailymotion as Twitch increase in Audience numbers in this decade.

With an average of 15 million daily active users, Twitch is the world's biggest game-streaming platform. It was there that esports superstars like Tyler "Ninja" Blevins were catapulted to fame, and now even President Donald Trump has a Twitch channel.
Ninja Tyler Blevins
Twitch made Tyler "Ninja" Blevins a superstar.

App Annie found Twitch to be the biggest over-indexing app in seven out of ten global markets (Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, South Korea, and the US), and ascribes this largely to its esports and game-streaming content.

Netflix is another video streaming site that's super popular with Gen Z, but according to App Annie they preferred to spend their time with Twitch streamers.

https://www.twitch.tv/

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/twitch-gaming-generation-z/1580038

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/tca-pbs-turns-50-but-looks-ahead


PBS is celebrate its 50th anniversary.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Cable subscribers actually slightly increase in 2020 due to higher streaming costs, as well as more previous OTA-only homes which lost some signals due to the repack "going wrong" in their areas.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Cable subscribers actually slightly increase in 2020 due to higher streaming costs, as well as more previous OTA-only homes which lost some signals due to the repack "going wrong" in their areas.

However, I predict that most of the increase in cable subscriptions will be for basic "lifeline" packages (local networks and netlets, shopping, public access, religious, CSPAN only basically).

A couple other predicitons for the rest of this year:

--More newspapers who still print TV inserts and listings will drop them entirely. I will go on a limb and predict that Gatehouse Media papers (which includes my local daily, the Springfield State Journal-Register, as well as other major Illinois papers in Peoria and Rockford) will be among those which drop TV listings and inserts entirely. In favor of urging use of online listings.

--At least one cable company will drop Music Choice entirely, or drop it from their Basic/lifeline lineup (if it's carreid there). Or make it a subscription service. I will predict again this will happen locally with my local Comcast lineup. (I have, and prefer at this time, having Comcast's Limited Basic lineup. I still get Music Choice on it).

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/478200-largest-democratic-super-pac-to-spend-150m-this-cycle

Not gurprising given that in Battleground states the primaries are at play for political ads.

The largest Democratic super PAC is expanding its 2020 budget by $50 million as it seeks to keep Democrats competitive with President Trump’s reelection spending while the party focuses on its nominating process.

Priorities USA had already committed $100 million this cycle to advertising, election infrastructure and mobilization efforts in the battleground states of Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

On Tuesday, the group announced its budget had grown to $150 million, including $70 million in television and digital ads that will begin running in February in the four battleground states. The $70 million is made up of a $30 million television buy and $40 million digital ads that will run on platforms such as YouTube, Hulu and Pandora.

Priorities USA has been on the air and online since July. In 2016, the group didn’t begin its advertising blitz until May of the election year, but Democrats are rattled by Trump and the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) massive fundraising hauls. Together, Trump and the RNC began 2020 with about $200 million in the bank.

 

[seatownmedia]

Ellen announces last season of syndication in 2020. She will maintain her nbc prime time specials.

 

[vchimpanzee]

--At least one cable company will drop Music Choice entirely, or drop it from their Basic/lifeline lineup (if it's carreid there). Or make it a subscription service. I will predict again this will happen locally with my local Comcast lineup. (I have, and prefer at this time, having Comcast's Limited Basic lineup. I still get Music Choice on it).

I don't know why any cable company would put this on a basic basic lineup, but that would be great.

Around here I seem to recall Music Choice is only on the digital tier. Which stopped meaning anything when Time Warner went all digital, but I think there was a premium service.

 

[vchimpanzee]

--More newspapers who still print TV inserts and listings will drop them entirely. I will go on a limb and predict that Gatehouse Media papers (which includes my local daily, the Springfield State Journal-Register, as well as other major Illinois papers in Peoria and Rockford) will be among those which drop TV listings and inserts entirely. In favor of urging use of online listings.

I get tired of people thinking online is enough. Maybe the rest of the world has an easy time just going online. Thanks to TiVo I do have another option, and it gets updated. The local paper did drop its TV listings. I still pay extra for The Charlotte Observer's section which is printed by someone else.

Two other papers in my area have shrunk the TV listings section. We no longer get episode descriptions for "best bets".

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Online often is enough. The world doesn’t need to cater to you.