Thursday, June 03, 2021

Once again, yes teevee folks, you're in trouble too

 I've said this myself, starting three years ago, on the ratings decline of local teevee news. Now, Dick Tofel of Pro Publica says that national teevee network news, which can be a big anchor for the second of the two local evening network news broadcasts, has been and continues to be in even bigger trouble. What I, via Pew, noted for local TV and Tofel for national, has one other commonality with each other and with newspapers: the younger the person, the more likely they've tuned you out.

Tofel offers some suggestions for them to avoid the print world's head-in-the-sands decades of mistakes. Whether they'll be adopted is anybody's guess.

And, as with papers, the reader/viewer decline has one other decline: ad dollars.

And, with that, plus, the possibility of bots taking your job, comes staff declines.

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