rant · moment 11 of 21
Warner Bros-Paramount Merger and the Death of Cable
from A Christmas K-Hole | The Tim Dillon Show #374 · #374
5 min
Tim argues entertainment mega-mergers like Warner Bros and Paramount won't save a dying industry, since cable TV and appointment viewing are permanently over.
- Warner Brothers and Paramount mergers create massive conglomerates chasing each other's assets.
- These mergers don't generate cash flow because the industries are dying.
- Cable is completely done—people are cutting cords and never going back.
- Broadcast TV is dead; TGIF and Boy Meets World aren't coming back.
- Nobody will ever care about the Academy Awards or Emmy Awards again.
- The only celebrities anyone recognizes in Los Angeles are the midgets from Selling Sunset.
- Celebrity tour buses in LA drive confused tourists past houses they can't see, pointing into empty canyons.
- Tourists from out of town are sold a lie that Los Angeles is always beautiful and sunny.
- The LA tour experience parallels New York guides pointing out exact landmarks—here they just point into voids.
- All these mergers ultimately amount to nothing because there's nothing left to see.
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