Future of Television

I think that the future for television networks and their demographics is slowly fading into something new in this digital age. Television shows will develop a new kind of format and relationships with the networks that will act as place-holders and time fillers. Because of the decrease of commercial viewing and the increase of product placement it becomes harder and harder for the networks and TV stations to make money needed to carry out their television shows. I think that the scripted sitcom shows will eventually be founded only on OnDemand. This way the viewer will have to pay a small fee in order to view their show and allow the show to make some of the money that they had spend on each episode since they will not be receiving the revenue from the advertisers. Sitcoms whether it be thirty minutes or sixty are pricy for networks to produce and with the shift of everything becoming digital it is very likely that they will fade away from their regular viewing ways. Hulu and other TV show viewing sites will increase with their popularity for those who do not want to pay the fee of it OnDemand.

News, talk shows, and reality shows will stay because of one main reason they are inexpensive to produce. Also no one is going to pay OnDemand to watch their news because who wants news from two days ago? I do believe that the way news is presented and formatted will change to give viewers a less in depth look at what is going on in the world because by the time that this changes the Internet will be at full speed; with the Internet being the primary way of reading full stories of what is happening around the world. Talk shows and reality shows are also inexpensive because the sets are usually not elaborate and they do not have to pay reality stars, and the talk show guests.

Eventually I think that as the Internet has become so extremely popular I think that cell phones will eventually become just as popular. Right now people are already using it to check emails, upload applications, and even watch television shows but in the near future this will be the first place people will turn to in order to watch all of their shows and news.

So in the next five to ten years when everything I have just said has come true you can thank me for providing you with this insightful look in to the digital entertainment era.