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The 2024 predictions thread

Y2kTheNewOldies

Y2kTheNewOldies

Here is my predictions

More Local TV Stations owners like Tegna, Hearst, Gray, Scripps, Sinclair, Nexstar and others will emphasize more on their owners app and not channel numbers on OTA and Cable given where we are today. Yes this like how KNTV San Jose calls itself NBC Bay Area as part of the move to promote the Peacock app and KPIX CBS Bay Area as part of the move to promote the Paramount + App.

Names of Cable Networks are going to fade away because of the same reasons more emphasis of their app name.

More TV Personalities not tied to politics will delete their X Accounts permanently and continue to promote Threads, Instagram, Mastadon, Tumblr and Discord in response to crazier allegations Elon Musk is in related to X.

Ron Desanits will Question Disney owned ABC Affiliates license like KABC Los Angeles in relation to his lawsuits against Disney on the Campaign trail.
 
The return of Saturday Morning Cartoons and the networks ditching that E/I/Nature shows that don't do good in the ratings The FCC should look at Hearst since they have monopoly on E/I/ Nature shows on the weekends CBS, NBC & ABC. WWE Raw goes to streaming. Fox will air TMZ Investigates & AMW on Fri once Smackdown ends at the end of Sep or goes with College Football or basketball on Fri nights. NBC or Fox will sign on to get NBA TV rights for 2024-25 season.

Bally Sports will fold after the MLB season in 2024 and more pro sports teams will sign with local TV stations to air the games across the state in those 19 Bally Sports teams are in. The FCC will renew the Fox O&O license in Philly and will deny those that clearly don't know the rules of The FCC complaint which has no merit whatsoever.
 
Sprectrum Essentials will add rest of none Sports Channels and Sports Channels like World Fushing Network to it.

Sportscenter live at Superbowl and so on.
 
Megatron said:
The return of Saturday Morning Cartoons and the networks ditching that E/I/Nature shows that don't do good in the ratings
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Bahahaha….no, just stop.
Megatron said:
The FCC should look at Hearst since they have monopoly on E/I/ Nature shows on the weekends CBS, NBC & ABC.
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This is a joke, right?
Mgomrjsurf said:
Sprectrum Essentials will add rest of none Sports Channels and Sports Channels like World Fushing Network to it.

Sportscenter live at Superbowl and so on.
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This isn’t even comprehensible.
 
the cw or Amazon gives the opportunity to have Allen Bestwick back in the booth for NASCAR in 2025 WWE Raw on
Prime Video tate mcrae replacing Carrie Ann Inaba for Dancing with the Stars the miz and Miesha Tate replacing Julie Chen Moonves for Big Brother
 
Megatron said:
Bally Sports will fold after the MLB season in 2024 and more pro sports teams will sign with local TV stations to air the games across the state in those 19 Bally Sports teams are in.
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That's gonna happen a whole lot sooner than the fall of '24. The fecal matter coming in contact with the rotary ventilator will occur before the start of Spring Training. BS will fold no later than next March.
 
If someone invented a time machine, Saturday morning cartoons would come back.

Again...if someone invents a time machine. It's a wonder that MeTV airs Bugs Bunny!

I wonder if the whole meaning of 'what's old is new again' will apply to the MLB at least. Games on local TV stations? With Root Sports NW however, the Mariners contract continues 'til 2030 or something crazy. Monopoly on cable.

A handful of cable networks will probably fold. This could include some multiplex movie networks. See how Showtime is turning into 'Paramount+ With Showtime' on Jan 8th? With the relevance of Netflix and Prime Video...do they REALLY need Showtime Extreme, Next, etc.? Some other channels I see on their last legs include LRW, the 'Plex' movie channels, American Heroes, and some of the Nick/MTV digital channels.

Can I predict that THE CW will cease operations, too? Losing many long-time affiliates did NOT help. No DC Universe, and no Smallville to help them either. Nexstar bleeds $$$ if they simulcast NewsNation over the air for 2 hours, because Newsmax is beating NewsNation in most timeslots.

And besides, the biggest prediction of all, which we ALL know - standard TV continues to be more and more irrelevant to the current age of streaming and watching whatever you want, whenever you want, except for sports and major news coverage (oh, and The Bachelor franchise). I predict a large percentage of election night viewing will be from streaming sources and NOT from OTA/cable/satellite. I wonder if the election audience will be larger or smaller...depending on WHO the R candidate is.
 
It would be strange and exciting that Fox gets the NBA TV rights punting the national WNBA games onto ION television or / and My Network TV
 
The secondary cable channels ala VH1, MTV2, HLN, and the various CNN, ESPN, Disney, WB Discovery channels will close down due to lack of original programming to fill up a 24 hour day.
 
Sinclair will buy FOX and their assets(Fox News, Tubi, etc.)
Longtime syndicated daytime shows like Steve Wilkos and Divorce Court will end their respective seasons.
ESPN/ABC to split two MNF games throughout next season, with one matchup being exclusively on ESPN and the marquee game over on ABC, with Joe Buck/Troy Aikman at the booth.
The CW will simulcast one NFL Saturday game from NFL Network, mostly involving teams with playoff potentials.
Nexstar to either launch their own regional sports network or acquire Bally Sports as soon as the network folds.
FCC will propose a plan to sell the entire UHF spectrum, thus moving all the local broadcast channels to either VHF or via streaming-only.
 
I thought Divorce Court already ended production. I can't see the FCC selling the entire UHF spectrum. But maybe channels 30-36 will be going eventually. More for 5G, or even 6G...whenever that starts.
 
Cox will partner with MLB Media and possibly an OTA outlet to create Baseball-centric channels in San Diego, Arizona, and possibly Cleveland. Live games, replays, a sports-talk radio simulcast for morning or afternoon weekdays. All things Padres, Diamondbacks, and Guardians in their respective markets.

Scripps will move ION to a .2 sub-channel in at least LA and Minneapolis, rebranding their .1 channels into 'independent' general entratainment and sports channels, following the pattern of ION channels in Las Vegas and Salt Lake City.

Regional telecasts will return to College Football in 2024 with The Big Ten and SEC being near national conferences. Their will be weeks with a major National game in the Noon, 3:30 and 7:30pm or 8pm start times, and some games at those same start times being only seen OTA in parts of the country. You will be able to have access to all games on the different streaming apps depending on the host network - at a small additional fee.
 
my prediction for TV in 2024:
Streaming apps belonging to lineal cable networks are phased out in favor of new "lineal channels" package for their parent companies streaming apps (Paramount Global owned networks move to Paramount+, Warner Brother Discovery owned networks on Max, NBC Universal channels on Peacock and Disney/Hearst owned channels on Hulu & Disney+ and ESPN+ for sports) so people can watch their favorite cable networks without the need for cable or satellite dishes.

NASCAR announces in 2024 that when the new TV Deal takes place in 2025, that all NASCAR broadcasts will be produced by NASCAR themselves with a in house production team, in house graphics, and a in house announce team with pit reporters on pit road, to make a network transition easier for when the races goes from Fox/FS1 to Prime Video, then Prime Video to TNT and then TNT To NBC/USA/Peacock, this would be similar to how the US broadcasts of F1 comes from F1 in house via Sky Sports UK.

WWE finds it's new TV home for Raw with a out of nowhere surprise, Raw moves to Tuesdays and off Basic Cable when ABC takes it for Tuesdays to avoid conflict with Monday Night Football, Dancing With The Stars moves back to Disney+ or becomes a Wednesday show as does the Bachelor/Bachelorette and it's spinoffs when DWTS isn't on, CM Punk's WWE return recently motivates the deal to be signed and TKO/Endeavor gets a huge payday with it

Al Michaels will officially retire from sports coverage due to his age, after the recent decision by NBC not to use him for the up coming playoff games, Amazon finds his replacement in someone from Fox, NBC or CBS's college football announce teams.

more shows impacted by the 2023 WGA & SAG-AFTRA strikes will see their shows canceled due to the long term effects of the double strikes.

another scandal happens with Jimmy Fallon that gets him canceled by cancel culture and then the Tonight Show looks for a new host.

Comedy Central cancels The Daily Show sighting declining ratings and failing to find Trevor Noah's successor as host as the reason for it's ending.

John Oliver ticks off Warner Brothers Discovery with a episode of Last Week Tonight, resulting in surprising cancelation and thus he replaces the canceled Daily Show with the same format at Last Week Tonight, but under a new name and becomes a Monday-Friday show.

AEW cancels Collision and Rampage for poor ratings, lays off half the roster, goes back to basics for Dynamite and retains TBS at the TV home but gains streaming rights on Max, including PPV and ROH is merged into AEW as the show that airs on Max while Honor Club shuts down as a in-house streaming service.

Anthem Media merges into Paramount Global and TNA moves back to Paramount Network (FKA Spike TV) all while AXS TV is retoooled into another network of MTV.

the 2024 election ends with a US Civil War which the media covers with a political bias with Fox News egging on the radical right to declare war when the results become clear they lost the election and a terrorist attack occurs over the election outcome to try to save Donald Trump from going to prison and reinstall him as president.

Taylor Swift breaks up with Travis Kelce after the NFL Postseason causing the 2024 NFL Season ratings to decreased due to angry swifties being mad at Travis.

the 2024 NCAA College Football Playoffs will omit a team that truly deserves to play in the CFP but this time, it causes the government to step in and investigate corruption in the CFP committee and ESPN is investigated too.

Disney shuts down Freeform and merging it into FXX, the 700 Club deal will end as part of the discontinuation of the network as the contract is for the actual Freeform network to carry 700 Club for the rest of the network's lifespan, but it won't be retained by FXX post merger.

Vince McMahon is forced out of TKO Group Holdings and Stephanie McMahon is rehired to replace him.

TEGNA will try merge into Gray, Sinclair, Nexstar or Byron Allen's company, gets major blowback from politicians and calls for the merger to be canceled.
 
WWE on ABC - absolutely not. Not in a million years.
I'd rather have an A.I. hologram of Johnny Carson than that boring Jimmy Fallon. But wait a minute, isn't that why the writers and actors went on strike anyway?

The 2024 election will be a (bleep) storm with Biden vs. Trump Part II...or what I call, "Two Old Guys". I don't expect Fox News to be part of the rhetoric as much as social media will be (on both sides!) At least it would simmer down with Haley or DeSantis as the R candidate.

Still a long way to go. The trial of the former President could turn a 180 and then some on the current political climate, and I've seen a few swing state polls that have Biden leading IF Trump was the nominee...but Biden losing if it was Haley/DeSantis. The pendulum could swing. That, and the Hunter Biden investigation, which is ramping up big time now. Have you ever seen a grizzly bear fight? That will be the entire year of 2024 in Congress, and against advocates and naysayers of both parties. The Israel vs. Hamas crisis (plus the reactions from major colleges like Harvard & UPenn, with alleged antisemitism on their campuses) makes it worse. I could go on and on. But this is about TV, not politics, and I'll leave it at that.

I'm not sure how long his contract goes at Fox, but I bet Amazon would love to have Gus Johnson to replace Al Michaels if they ever did. He has more energy than most sportscasters. That's why the college fans LOVE him. Yours truly included.

I see The Daily Show going to streaming-only, or maybe it will be canceled. Look, late-night programs are dying anyway. I give the new @Midnight on CBS a year at most.
 
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