Streaming Costs You More Than Ever And It’s Going To Get Worse

Meanwhile, for their part, legacy media corporations perceive price increases as lifelines for offsetting the long decline of traditional TV revenues. Streaming, however, remains the most lucrative game in town. For example, as Disney gains total control of Hulu, combining it with its preexisting Disney+ and ESPN+ offerings, Disney’s streaming-derived revenue should soon surpass the losses of its linear TV business, at least according to AllianceBernstein’s analyst, Laurent Yoon.

But such convenient and reparative compensations are far from universal; both Peacock and Paramount+, for example, struggle to bridge the gap, the sheer losses incurred by their legacy network counterparts.