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TV-Related Predictions for 2020

Coronavirus is the catalyst that kills video on cable/satellite. Unemployment from closed service industries prompts workers to cut back, creating a vicious cycle upward that ignites the predicted recession. Expect OTA antennas and OTT box sales to jump!
 
The late night talk shows will decline as well after everything returns to normal. Look for both CBS and NBC downgrade from three late night talk shows to one each. No network late night talk shows on 12:37 and 1:37am anymore and the affiates either air their 11pm news taped earlier or sign off until 4am.

Even Kimmell, Fallon and Colbert will see their ratings dip even more.
 
TVCOOL said:
The late night talk shows will decline as well after everything returns to normal. Look for both CBS and NBC downgrade from three late night talk shows to one each. No network late night talk shows on 12:37 and 1:37am anymore and the affiates either air their 11pm news taped earlier or sign off until 4am.

Even Kimmell, Fallon and Colbert will see their ratings dip even more.
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I could see the Late Late Show, Late Night and Jimmy Kimmel being cut to 30 minutes and “A Little Late” being cancelled, and Nightline expanding to an hour and starting at 11:35 permanently. I doubt they would go back to signing off, they would just start the network overnight news broadcasts sooner or plug in syndication, newscast repeats, or infomercials.

WJZY used to re-run their 10:00 news at 1am when their news first launched but stopped doing it after a while. Now they run infomercials from 1 til 4am.
 
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I could see a couple weeks where the late night shows are completely preempted for news coverage, especially if the federal government goes ahead with a national Spain-like quarantine situation with police and/or military out to enforce it nationwide...
 
Stations won't go back to signing off because they won't give up the money they get from infomercials. But extreme late night and early morning is the best place for those.
 
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