Doesn’t look like the big broadcasters/news sites want me to use YouTube “as TV” judging by what I see. It’s just clips not programs. BBC for example has some news stories but no news broadcasts.
The curation is what I want. A big important story should take more time of the broadcast. I don’t want to choose what story I’m interested in I want someone to do it for me. That’s the difference between a news program and a set of N 3 minute news stories.
It’s like the difference between an rss feed and a newspaper. A big point of the newspaper is they decide what space to give everything and what to put on the front page. You can’t meaningfully understand the world by reading an rss even with the same articles, because a key insight is knowing what the big story is in the sense of what other people have seen.
Old media corporations have never used Youtube well. But people aren't "replacing TV with youtube" by watching that old media content on Youtube; rather they're not watching that old sort of content at all and now watch the new style of media, mostly done by individual "creators" or a few new-media saavy corps. The remaining audience for old media corps, NBC/etc, are nursing home residents or soon to be.
Yeah even I (an old fart who prefers linear broadcast to anything where I need to click) is consuming a lot of online video content. I like YouTube for learning how to play a song on guitar, tech content, learning how to repair a gadget and so on. But I do this on my phone, perhaps on the bus. Hell, I often do it while watching TV. I'm not surprised YouTube is huge, but this article says that YouTube is big on television screens. And that surprises me.
My big TV I use mostly for watching something together with others - at least with others in the same room - and that's hard with YouTube. Too much to choose from/too niche, and 5 minute intervals between having to choose something. But this article suggests it's something people actually do these days (or perhaps it's "watching together with others" that's also dying in this process? The stats don't say).
The curation is what I want. A big important story should take more time of the broadcast. I don’t want to choose what story I’m interested in I want someone to do it for me. That’s the difference between a news program and a set of N 3 minute news stories.
It’s like the difference between an rss feed and a newspaper. A big point of the newspaper is they decide what space to give everything and what to put on the front page. You can’t meaningfully understand the world by reading an rss even with the same articles, because a key insight is knowing what the big story is in the sense of what other people have seen.