\u201cIt\u2019s a toxic show with horrible hosts.\u201d That\u2019s the word from Joe Barron, executive vice president in charge of programming at DirecTV.<\/p>\n
The company, which has been trying tr re-brand itself with the rise of streaming services, believes this is the best way to keep a solid, happy customer base.<\/p>\n
\u2018Look at Fox News,\u201d said Barron, \u201cwhile the cable industry in general begins its death throes, this one network has managed to keep its audience and even grow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barron says doing away with shows such as \u201cThe View\u201d is the best way to keep DirecTV\u2019s most reliable customers.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to think the way the Boomers think,\u201d he told his coworkers at a symposium on further exploiting an entire generation in the Trump years, \u201cThey prefer not to.<\/p>\n
They\u2019d rather just turn on the TV and let their favorite personalities do that for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
DirecTV has secured a relationship with Fox through 2049.<\/p>\n
ABC, however, still has some catching up to do.<\/p>\n
It needs to compensate Roseanne for \u201cThe Connors,\u201d and hire Gina Carano as an on-the-field commentator for the NFL.<\/p>\n
She played in the league for three years as Larry Humbeckler of the Cleveland Browns before they moved to Baltimore.<\/p>\n
ABC says it has no plans to cancel its number-one-rated daytime show and will instead \u201cgo the way of Sunday Ticket and help the slow death of DirecTV\u2019s archaic platform go the way of the dodo.<\/p>\n
For now, it seems the boomers will still have their Fox News, but they may have to miss out on Grey\u2019s Anatomy. Is it worth it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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