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by hedora 856 days ago
I looked up viewership numbers for relevant streaming platforms:

AppleTV: 30M (2022; probably closer to 45M now)

Paramount+: 65M

Prime Video: 145M (US)

Netflix: 245M (Worldwide 2022)

They're putting the daily show on paramount+, so they're reaching less than 25% of streaming households.

From a viewer perspective, it's basically $6 / month just for this one show (and you have to sit through ads don't even get to watch broadcast CBS on it). You have to get a $12 / month bundle to skip the ads. I can't see sitting through ads or paying that much just for one program.

(Star Trek is great, but holy crap, there's nothing else decent on that service, and, other than the Lower Decks, the new stuff is really, really rough -- this is coming from someone that watched everything up to and including Enterprise.)