>>18152193Their attendance is not dwindling, it's perfectly fine and any trends you are pulling from the attendance dataset is you just seeing whatever you want to see via confirmation bias because you're a dishonest low IQ sperg.
>>18152194>The Times also commented that general-interest cable networks such as TNT, USA Network and TBS were particularly hard-hit, with TNT and TBS's combined original series output dropping from 17 series to 3. USA suffered a near-complete loss of its original scripted programming, though this was also partially due to the network absorbing more sports programming from the closure of sister network NBCSN, which helped keep USA's ratings among the highest on cable. Such cable networks have increasingly relied upon all-day marathons of acquired rerun programming to fill their schedules.[33] This has coincided with an even more dramatic decline in viewership, with general-interest cable networks and several of the more established niche networks losing over half of their viewing audiences in the same period; David Bauder of the Associated Press noted that the corresponding declines in viewership and original programming were triggering a vicious cycle, and that by the mid-2020s, cable television had lost its ability to create "appointment television" events, instead relying on "ghost" programming such as low-quality, low-cost reality fare and reruns.[32] By 2024, only three cable series โYellowstone, Hallmark Channel original series When Calls the Heart and The Way Home โ averaged more than 1.5 million viewers.[90]Cable is massively in decline and it's the reason RAW fled cable.