I remember the time very well. I had all four airings in my area down pat. But I also remember casual fans having to look for it, and at the time people weren't used to it. I'm not saying it was hard, it was just an extra effort, and people can be lazy. Just look at the hubbub over All Access...laziness.
Weill, yeah, you had to read/watch some ad, but as I recall in the days leading up to the premiere, there was so much advertisement out there about the only thing more Paramount could have done was dispatch people to knock on your door and tune your TV for you at the appropriate time.
I don't think they'll pull them. I took a look today to compare with their first CBSAA offering, The Good Fight, and the entire season of that is still available to watch still.
You mention the TNG ads: I remember a few seasons in and our local station moved TNG to another night. The print ads had the 1701-D and the caption, "Same Ship, Different Day!"
I remember having a tough time viewing the VOY broadcasts in 1995 because there was no local UPN affiliate in my area.
I don't know where people got this idea that CBS will pull episodes.
I had to fight for Voyager too. a friend in another cable system area recorded them for me on VHS. By comparison, All Access is a piece of piss.
It's actually fairly common, some streaming services only show 5 episodes at a time..something I thought All Access would do.
I see that on Hulu but only with shows that Hulu licenses, not shows Hulu makes themselves. The equivalent would be Hulu pulling episodes of Difficult People or Casual, which they don't do. Or Netflix pulling episodes of Daredevil and Stranger Things, which they don't do. I don't know of any examples of a streaming service pulling episodes of their own shows which are shown exclusively on their service.
Unless the CEO just read about those Buddhist sand mandalas that are destroyed immediately after they're finished and now loves the idea of the temporal nature of art.
They were talking about it (CBS) because (I assume) they wanted to try an curb someone subbing for one month (or the 'Free week') and being able to 'binge watch' ST: D all at once. (IE They wanted to make sure you stayed subscribed for a few months to see the series.)
I've been trying to find an article wherein CBS makes this suggestion but can't seem to find it. Do you have a source for this?
I honestly remember reading a blurb from an article from back in December 2016 where some CBS Exec, mentioned it as a possibility; but nope, on a Google search, I can't find it either.
Totally off-topic, but I was at the dentist last week, and while I was in the waiting room, I took out my tablet and started scribbling something that could've been mistaken as being mandala-like. And, yeah, when the hygienist called, I deleted it.
No, it's not laziness, at least not for me, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. I don't have a ton of money, and I'm not real happy after to use more of it, on another streaming service to see Discovery.
Well, those are network show that air on TV before they're posted online, so that is a bit of a different situation. Most of the US networks do the same thing with the shows that air on TV, but most of the old shows that they post and the stuff that is exclusive to the streaming service tend to stay up permanently, or at least for a very, very long time.
