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2023 TV Predictions

Cartoons return on Sat morning on broadcast E/I nature gets reduced.
Not happening. All new fare is strictly being made for CN, Nick, Disney and HBO Max. The days of Filmation, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng and the like are long gone.
 
Not happening. All new fare is strictly being made for CN, Nick, Disney and HBO Max. The days of Filmation, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng and the like are long gone.
That's great! I can now totally those classic cartoon killing interpretations of real animation.
 
Scripps think you should reach out to Robin Meade & Bob Van Dillen they could be a good addition for Scripps News no Alexi Lalas for 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Brittney Griner interview and 30 for 30 is gonna be a must watch 10 pm Baltimore news wars Sonya Deville and Kevin Pereira for Dancing with the Stars and David Shaw for nbc's big ten saturday night
 
TV stars, Movie stars, Sports stars will continue to post on Social media but their status updates will not be on Twitter but on Instagram a Meta owned outlet.
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Either this dataset includes all of Meta's platforms into the single entry called "Facebook", or Insta isn't even in the top ten.

I think that kills your prediction above.
 
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.
AEW couldn't keep 1 million viewers for Dynamite and Rampage is losing more viewers weekly. TNT will cancel AEW Rampage for Izzolli and Isles and/or Bones reruns instead.
 
Samantha bee will reemerge on peacock
Fallon will announce hes leaving the tonight show
Netflix will raise its prices, as will philo, sling (once again) and several others
Niche streaming services like britbox will shut down
Peacock and hulu will acquire shows from hbo max (either exclusively or non-exclusively)
Peacock will offer shows before they hit the airwaves to subscribers.
 
I don't think it will occur as early as 2023, but I think the remaining daytime soaps on broadcast-TV will be gone before too many years go by.

I think ABC will eventually cancel "General Hospital" and either replace it with some sort of talk show, or give back it's midafternoon time slot back to local affiliates in return for taking back the 9-10 A.M. hour to expand "Good Morning America" to a third hour (which may also trigger a change of title for "GMA 3"---maybe to "Good Afternoon America"?).

I also think that within a couple of years, CBS will cancel it's remaining soaps ("The Young And The Restless" and "The Bold And The Beautiful"), with "Y&R" probably getting replaced by a talk show and "B&B"'s half-hour returned to local CBS affiliates and the daytime schedule rearranged so CBS affiliates, regardless of time zone, get the hour between 12 Noon and 1 P.M. local time to fill with programs of the station's choice. If CBS does this, I could see the network strongly suggest to it's affiliates that they expand their local Noon newscasts to a full hour.

The reason I see the demise of the soaps is that viewership has gone down and production costs have gone up. I don't think daytime soaps are as profitable to the networks (and the shows' producers) as they were 40, 30, 20, 10, or even five years ago.

Again, I doubt this will occur as soon as 2023, but maybe in 2024 or 2025.
 
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Either this dataset includes all of Meta's platforms into the single entry called "Facebook", or Insta isn't even in the top ten.

I think that kills your prediction above.
True since it says "Facebook" maybe the parent company? If we are talking about the main platform I knew in the past year Facebook Inc was renamed Meta Inc. Here is the current stats for 2 of the Meta owned platforms.


Here is the current study on Facebook users as of 2022 if we are to cut by age and gender so far.

Facebook Demographics​


Instagram's demos as of 2022.

Here’s the average age of Instagram users worldwide:​

  • The largest group of Instagram users (33.8% of users) are aged 25-34
  • The second-largest group (29.3% of users) are aged 18-24
  • The third-largest demographic group is 35-44 with a 15.9% share
  • Overall, 56% of Instagram users are females, 44% are males
  • The data shows that Instagram has one of the widest user bases with users aged 13 to 64 and beyond.

    However, the average age of Instagram users (33.8%) is between 25 and 34 years old.

    In total, over 70% of total Instagram users worldwide were 34 years and younger. This makes the platform particularly attractive for social media marketers who are targeting a younger audience in general.
 
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ITVX is going to be a streaming outlet for UK audiences.


Also BBC is transitioning to Online only by the 2030's.
 
I don't think it will occur as early as 2023, but I think the remaining daytime soaps on broadcast-TV will be gone before too many years go by.

I think ABC will eventually cancel "General Hospital" and either replace it with some sort of talk show, or give back it's midafternoon time slot back to local affiliates in return for taking back the 9-10 A.M. hour to expand "Good Morning America" to a third hour (which may also trigger a change of title for "GMA 3"---maybe to "Good Afternoon America"?).

I also think that within a couple of years, CBS will cancel it's remaining soaps ("The Young And The Restless" and "The Bold And The Beautiful"), with "Y&R" probably getting replaced by a talk show and "B&B"'s half-hour returned to local CBS affiliates and the daytime schedule rearranged so CBS affiliates, regardless of time zone, get the hour between 12 Noon and 1 P.M. local time to fill with programs of the station's choice. If CBS does this, I could see the network strongly suggest to it's affiliates that they expand their local Noon newscasts to a full hour.

The reason I see the demise of the soaps is that viewership has gone down and production costs have gone up. I don't think daytime soaps are as profitable to the networks (and the shows' producers) as they were 40, 30, 20, 10, or even five years ago.

Again, I doubt this will occur as soon as 2023, but maybe in 2024 or 2025.
To be frank, I'm surprised legacy daytime "soap operas" on the major networks have lasted as long as they've somehow managed to. Consider that their core audiences at one time were stay at home moms and women homemakers - and aside from relatively brief maternity leaves neither of these has existed in large numbers for decades. Soaps were once also watched by college students, but younger generations are now mostly into streaming services and content on their smartphones. Given those factors alone, it's a small wonder that traditional daytime soaps have lasted as long as they have.
 
The Bold and Beautiful and The Young and The Restless are renewed through 2024. By then I could see the soaps moving to Paramount+
 
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