The Slow Death of Satellite Television
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In this video we look at the rise and fall of the satellite television industry and the implications of the recently proposed merger between DirecTV and Dish.
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0:00 – 1:57 Intro
1:58 – 4:06 Rise of Satellite Television
4:07 – 7:21 Linear Television Business Model
7:22 – 9:42 A Dire Situation
9:43 Merger
@wallstreetmillennial
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
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@moea8596
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
My last Direct TV bill was $347.97 back in 2017 and I was working a crummy part time job. I didn’t have enough money to pay my TV bill and I was cut off 2 days before disconnection, so my mom invested in getting a 4KTV. I helped her hook up the Wi-Fi and set it up in the living room. All we need was internet and a smart TV and popped into Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube. I’m glad I’m not wasting my money on expensive satellite TV with only 300 channels on it.
@BrendaMorganMurray
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
The Television Broadcast Business has destroyed 😢
@Smiling_Jay
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
He says Internet in a very unusual way
@HemiChrysler
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
I worked as a software engineer upon satellite television software. I upgraded the SI (Service Information). Data packets are video, audio, or SI. SI tells the set-top box about channels, programmes on the channels, pay per view, and, most importantly, the data packet numbers for each channel. Unlike streaming, the set-top box receives all channels at the same time. The vast majority of video and audio data packets are discarded because the viewer is not watching those channels. It just gathers the data for 1 frame of the selected channel, hence the importance of the data packet identity numbers. That was 20+ years ago, so my software may no longer be used.
@TTG-86
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Even if they merge, I would bet on them still going bankrupt
@robertplatt643
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Where else will American get its rasslin'?
@robertpreece7259
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Well at least they lasted a longer than sky and bsb (British satellite broadcasting) in the uk
@ericmundsinger6
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Satellite tv is now obsolete technology with the advancement of streaming services which you can get for free.
@ch421249
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
LOL
@SJacolyn-b1q
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
This programme kept me glued on the screen, it was great history of the satellite revolution, so interesting and so informative, God bless all those intellectuals who made a great contribution to bring this discovery to a full grown sophistication we enjoy today.
@Royaleoake
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
I pay for my internet and Youtube. $140 and my whole family can watch whatever they want youtube without commercials.
Spare me the “only idiots pay for youtube when there is adblock” btw.
@ibrahim-ob1lt
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
It's still alive in many places in the world.
@rkgsd
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
ESPN has high carriage fees because they're paying millions of dollars to a few talking heads.
@RedLeo-pf9yo
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Direct tv rocks !!!!
@swampwiz
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
I used to have cable TV back up to the mid '90s. That's when the internet got going, and I stopped consuming TV, choosing even the back-then clunky early internet (another reason was that I started doing a lot of traveling, so having cable TV didn't make sense – oh, and didn't help that my service was always crappy). Of course, since then, online video has gotten going, and I satisfy my need completely through the internet. In fact, since I have a Google Voice telephone, the only telecommunication spending I do is basically the internet, with some pay-by-the-minute or government-supplied mobile phone service on the side. Oh, and I watch my sports via the local free stations or from pirate sites online. 🙂
@rkmklz7562
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Back in the 1980s Antenna and a Dish 📡 we had everything… It was great 👍
@YouCantBeDoingThisMyGuy
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
I old enough to remember when cable was like 10 bucks in NYC and I never missed a Yankees or Knicks game. 🤦🏽♂️
@walterlowe8322
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
We had cable TV in northern Arizona in 1961.
@emwemw1
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
DSTV, I warned y'all.
@AnotherPilot1
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
I cancelled Dish a dozen years ago and to this day…still get "offers" from them for their crappy service. They kept jacking up rates as well…
@coyoteduster8919
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Imagine paying like 200 a month for direct tv and nfl sunday ticket, then have your tv go out everytime it gets too cloudy
@BigJim12860
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Direct TV ripped me off for 20+ years. No sadness on my part it is going bust.
@SantosXOfficial
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Maybe lower the price
@RayHowle-jb1bi
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
High prices
@teamskeet2006
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
pay television has always been overpriced. I won't pay unless I get totally ad-free and only pay for the channels that I want. I've been OTA only since 2009, haven't missed a thing and have saved over $19k and counting
@deanvoss7098
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Maybe stop charging so much😂…
When you spend hundreds of dollars to watch commercials people are going to throw it in the dumpster
@tonezone8066
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Naw they take everything wtf y'all mean and give me the bare minimum trash. What doesn't go to trash everything does.
@koolvidsATX
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Their problem is that is too expensive and too many commercials
@grxzzly94
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
dish Network was TRASH during stormy days 😂
@walterfijn3586
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Just wait until Elon Musk buys them both.
@abdelkaderelbachir3817
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Here where I live in Algeria North Africa satellite TV or better known as DVB is still going very strong because it's free, Since I could remember we never paid to watch tv DVB grants your access to thousands of channels from all across the world, And better yet Internet connected receivers can decode scrambled channels like bien sport very easily, The most popular satellites here are Nilesat Hotbird and Astra
@coinpusherr1558
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
They Merg together and the first thing thay do is raise the price!! Yes that will help..NOT!
@tyronewalker5764
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
I'm tired of paying for commercials!😮
@dwaynetino
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
in subsaharian africa, DSTV is dying, but they are being so arrogant
@fritzbang4805
April 14, 2026 at 12:31 pm
A large number of worthless channels has fallen out of favor. Cable is falling with satellite in favor of fiber.