anyway, my predictions of 2023 in TV:
HLN Will be shut down or changes into a different network with no news coverage at all, possibly forcing a Cartoon Network/Adult Swim split or becomes a more sports heavy network under the Warner Sports Net name (as i said on HLN thread).
AMC Networks is bought out by a bigger media company for the IPs of hit shows like The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Etc.
Warner Brothers Discovery spins CNN off of it's ownership, sold to Bryon Allen's Entertainment Studios group and merges into a national news division of the company which will be based out of Atlanta and also includes The Weather Channel.
speaking of WBD, they go into bankruptcy after their debts become so hard to pay even with all the recent budget cuts post merger (due to taking in the debt previously created by AT&T from their buyout of TimeWarner and DirecTV.)
NASCAR gets a new TV deal signed, but it will be a steal for it's new TV Partners as NASCAR signs a deal with it's current TV partners as well as a new partner, Amazon for streaming rights to all races exclusively for the Fox/FS1 half of the season, while
Amazon gets a share of "Prime Video" exclusive race (a revival of the TNT Summer Series portion of the season) and Peacock gets streaming rights to the NBC/USA half of the season due to being a in house streaming platform for NBC.
AEW reaches a agreement with WBD to stay on TNT & TBS for Dynamite & Rampage but also extends it to TruTV and HBO Max (or what else a merged streaming platform for WBD would be called) for ROH on TruTV and Dark & Dark: Elevation moves to HBO Max for the US Market while being posted on YouTube internationally (but geo-blocked in the US)
WWE and AEW and other promotions will host a huge wrestling event that is consider the biggest joint wrestling promotion show which features some huge dream matches that can't happen without opening the "Forbidden Door".
Desi Lydic is named Trevor Noah's successor as the new host of the Daily Show in 2023 once it's hiatus wraps up late next month, meanwhile Last Week Tonight is shockingly canceled by WBD because of "Budget Cuts" which leads to James Corden's replacement of the Late Late Show being John Oliver which turns it into the format of Last Week Tonight but with interviews and sketches and musical performances/stand up comedy performances that would be new and unique to The Late Late Show, but Reggie Watts is retained as host show band leader.
a huge political event (possibly a attempted insurrection in Arizona's state government lead by Kari Lake who refuses to accept that she lost the election) leads to a major preemption of national programming.
WBD consolidates HBO Max and Discovery+ and rebrands it to Warner Max to reflect on the Warner Brothers system.
Paramount Global and NBCUniversal considers a merger of Paramount+ and Peacock when both streaming services have their financial struggles thanks to a recession, it does happen at the end of the 2023 with the newly merged service to be a spin off of both companies that is owned by them in a joint ownership deal along with New Fox who cuts ties with Disney for Hulu for non 20th Century owned content on Hulu owned by Fox.
Disney changes Hulu after NBCUniversal finally agrees to sale their ownership of the service a little earlier than expected and it leads to Disney+ being extended to ad more adult friendly content that is R rated movies and TV-14/TV-MA TV shows, ESPN+ remains a separated service but still needs to be bundled with Disney+ for that while Hulu becomes more of a live streaming service catering with the Hulu Live branding being rebranded as just Hulu as it rebrands to a live streaming brand that competes with YouTube TV, Sling TV, Fubo TV, DirecTV Stream and Philo which the Hulu live thing is already competing against.
