On this Wednesday, I am thinking about the coming collapse of the network TV industry, news included.

 

Last Sunday only about six million viewers tuned into watch the Emmys, television’s biggest award show.  Few apparently cared what shows were deemed best because few watch network TV anymore. Everyone’s on Netflix or something.

 
The litmus test is my kids who haven’t watched a network program in years. They don’t care who’s dancing, who’s singing or who’s on Love Island. The urchins are too busy texting their friends about God knows what. They have thumbs stronger than Schwarzenegger’s.

 
Television news is largely boring because news headlines appear on your hand-held machine almost every minute. We now know what’s happening instantaneously. We don’t need timid anchor people to inform us anymore.

 
The cable opinion programs are less lively than they used to be because the hosts are afraid their corporate masters will cancel them, if the radical mob boycotts or whatever. There is fear in and on the air.

 
After Covid and the intense presidential campaign, television news will be in big trouble.

 
Mark my words.

 

So, the end of TV as we know it is near. As Walter Cronkite once said, that’s the way it is.

 

Tonight on the No Spin News, former White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders. See you beginning at six eastern.