In recent years, the development of cable TV in mainland China has been declining year by year, and combined with the development trend of global cable TV, cable TV seems to be coming to an end. The main units operating cable television are radio and television network companies in various localities, and these branches are divided into listed cable television companies and unlisted companies according to the criteria for listing; from the perspective of profits, they are divided into cable television companies that make money and cable television companies that are loss-making; from the level of enterprise management, they are divided into traditional cable television companies with cable television as their main business and companies that are diversified based on the cable television business; and from the perspective of whether or not they are transformed, they are divided into cable television companies that have already transformed or are in the process of transformation and cable television companies that have not yet begun to transform。
With the continuous loss of the cable TV market in various places, whether it is the reason of policy or the reason of operation and management, cable TV companies in many areas, especially in economically backward areas, have begun to enter a state of loss, and the situation of employee salary arrears has also occurred, and employees in individual provinces have not received the full amount of wages due for more than half a year.
In fact, from the perspective of enterprise operation or the management of listed companies, most radio and television network companies with cable television as their main business, especially those that have been losing money all year round, should enter bankruptcy liquidation. Whether it is an objective reason or a subjective reason, there are already many people who hope that cable TV can go out of business quickly, which is divided into the following categories:
1. Radio and television network companies with backward economic development and long-term losses, because the enterprises are no longer able to bear the wages and benefits of employees, the employees of these enterprises hope that cable television can quickly go out of business, give a good time, and it is best to receive economic compensation and leave.
2. From a technical point of view, cable TV is only a TV signal transmission method with coaxial cable as the medium, and does not involve the specific content of the TV station, in the case of the cable TV market recession, radio and television network companies in some regions have begun to try to IPTV (interactive network TV) for technical migration, in this case, maintenance personnel need to maintain two sets of TV platforms at the same time, the workload is larger, so this part of the technical staff hopes that cable TV can be closed down as soon as possible.
3. Cable TV has accumulated hundreds of millions of cable TV users after long-term development, and even after nearly a decade of user loss, there will still be more than 200 million actual cable TV users in the country by the end of 2023. The development of cable TV has the advantages of starting early, excellent policies, and sufficient funds, but the cable TV that grew up in this kind of honey tank is vulnerable once it encounters competitors, so it makes cable TV users completely disappointed, and I hope that cable TV will go out of business soon.
4. Of course, cable TV in a market competition environment is facing a variety of users, and the future society will be based on video and Ai society, as a competitor of cable TV, especially Internet TV, of course, hope that it will one day replace cable TV, and it is not surprising that they hope that cable TV will go out of business soon.
In short, cable television, as a video application product, is gradually losing its monopoly advantage and a variety of substitutable products are emerging, and the future of cable television is in jeopardy, so will cable television really go out of business? This not only depends on whether its operators can have the courage to survive with broken arms and the courage to fight against the odds, but also depends on whether it can bring greater convenience and innovation to users in the transmission and application of video signals in the future.