News: Netflix as Popular as Cable

A recent xkcd comic illustrates how people’s feelings of smugness and embarrassment when they say “I don’t own a TV” have changed from 1950 to today. As usual, xkcd is right on the nose with this one.  A recent Mashable article revealed that "Netflix is creeping up on cable in the race for young adult subscribers in the U.S. Among those between the ages of 18 and 36, 46% of paid TV subscribers choose cable, while 43% are Netflix users." 

As someone who studied economics and television production in college, I get disproportionately excited by news stories like this.  I find the prospect of the internet overtaking cable television very exciting.  It feels as if my generation is making entertainment a more accessible medium for small artists, and I sincerely hope that, one day, television will operate on a paradigm that resembles YouTube's business model more closely than the current broadcast model.  

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