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2022 Television Predictions

KSMOTV shifted it to 8pm to 10pm to do Locker Room 7pm and repeat of 6pm Newscast KCTV5 7:30pm. Allen Media acquires it so then turns it into another home for new shows or shows that could get cancelled.
 
Mgomrjsurf said:
What ESPN2 has daytime programming but some are repeats.

CBS will add CBS Sports Network 2 maybe with NBCSN going away.
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CBS has the weakest lineup of any national cable sports network. CBSSN 2 would be like ESPN The Ocho in terms of "sports."
 
This coming year will see the number of cable channels shrink and when ATSC 3.0 gets rolled out we could see Fox News, ESPN, USA, Paramount move to sub channels on Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS either on their .2 or .3 subchannel.
 
TVCOOL said:
This coming year will see the number of cable channels shrink and when ATSC 3.0 gets rolled out we could see Fox News, ESPN, USA, Paramount move to sub channels on Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS either on their .2 or .3 subchannel.
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ESPN will go exclusively to the ESPN app before ever going to a digital subchannel.
 
Another prediction in regards to Christmas 2022 NFL scheduling (since Christmas Day next year falls on Sunday):

As in 2016, most of the regular season games in next year's Week 16 move to Christmas Eve--but no Christmas Eve night game. There will also be a Friday night game on Dec. 23 in addition to Thursday Night Football (Dec. 22).

Christmas Day will include 3 national NFL games: one game on CBS, another on Fox, and Sunday Night Football on NBC. Competing against the traditional full Christmas NBA slate on ABC.

Since public offices and governments will consider Monday, Dec. 26 as the Christmas holiday due to falling on Sunday (and no mail that day, so Dec. 26 next year will be like a typical Monday national holiday), NFL will have 3 additional national games on Dec. 26: one on CBS, another on Fox, and then Monday Night Football will air on ABC that night (in addition to ESPN).
 
Tim from Springfield IL said:
This may be another pipe dream, but I will predict Comcast/Xfinity will finally get serious about dropping duplicate SD feeds of stations already available in HD. Anything above the legacy (channels 2-99) and Digital Starter lineups will have their SD duplicates dropped in 2022, with plans announced to be all-HD and all-X1/streaming on all their systems by 2025.
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Along those lines, newer versions of X1 boxes will start having their remaining SD channels auto-tune to the 4-digit national lineup. (If a user has that option enabled on their box). (Again, this is wishful thinking).

Preferably, I'd like to see Comcast enter 2022 by announcing all but Legacy (old 2-99) and Limited Basic (including 3-digit channels) are going to all-HD. If a channel in Digital Starter and above still actually doesn't broadcast in HD, they'll strictly become X1-only.

Also, I'm going on a limb on this one but I will also predict that Comcast drops Music Choice from older boxes and their channels--and Music Choice becomes streaming only on X1 and Comcast-enabled streaming devices.
 
Tim from Springfield IL said:
Golden Globes continues to make diversity improvements in time for the 80th ceremony on Jan. 8, 2023. This time NBC responds by saying "We don't care, we'd rather air a playoff implication Sunday Night Football game instead."

Golden Globes moves exclusively to streaming only starting in 2023 (Apple Tv or one of those).
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An emboldened NBC follows their Golden Globes permananent snub (despite diversity improvements) by announcing they're pulling out of the Emmy rotation (through 2026) immediately cancelling their scheduled broadcast of the 2022 Emmys on Sept. 18, 2022. Claiming also that "diversity needs to be improved on the Emmys," but at the same time admitting "We don't want to preempt Sunday Night Football that night, or ever."

Or NBC pulls a fast one and dumps the 2022 Emmys over to the Peacock app, in favor of SNF.
 
The few remaining infomercial providers will buy hour blocks of time on the home shopping networks, and shorter 2-4 minutes of ad time on individual stations, as local stations gravitate to more local news and simulcasts of DigiNet channels on overnights and weekends.
 
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