Okay, well if they are trying to discourage streaming of current episodes to drive up broadcast ratings, then that is perfectly consistent with and explains our saga today. But it’s hard to believe there isn’t a way for them to exploit the incredible interest in this one program to drive awareness of and traffic to the channel.
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 at 5:09 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > They’ve written articles about it, but the synergy between the Paramount > cable network and what was then the CBS app was nonexistent. Add to that > nobody expected Yellowstone to become a hit (it was a minor hit until the > Covid lockdown when many including me discovered it). They are locked into > a streaming deal with Hulu that they could not break, so they are making it > harder for people to stream the show because they want the network ratings. > > I bought the season on iTunes for $20 a few weeks before they started > airing, so watching has not been a problem. > > Has anybody seen “Tulsa King,” by the same writer/showrunner? Sylvester > Stallone couldn’t act when he was in his prime… watching him try to act now > is just so very sad. I forced myself through the first episode, but have no > interest in watching additional episodes. > > But one week until 1923… that one I’m looking forward to. > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 4:48 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We just spent an hour in my house trying to get my wife access to Season >> 5 of Yellowstone. She had watched earlier seasons on some combination of >> Peacock and Paramount Plus, but could find Season 5 on neither. She was >> particularly upset because two of her four sisters, with whom she discusses >> the show, and talks to every day, have told her they already saw multiple >> episodes, and my wife was feeling left out. >> >> This is where I get activated. I tried to get into this show, and could >> not get past the first few episodes, and I know I watched them on Peacock. >> I was certain I had read, here and or elsewhere, that more recent seasons >> were streaming on P+ As a function of some complicated sequence. But I >> confirmed it was not on P+. >> >> A little Googling revealed that Yellowstone currently can not be >> streamed, but was available on Paramount Network, which, it turns out, is >> not really an earlier version of Paramount Plus, but a later iteration of >> Spike TV (I’m sure this has been discussed here, but I would have only >> skimmed it). So at first it seemed that if we had not recorded Yellowstone >> episodes as they aired, there was no way to watch (until, I suppose, they >> eventually show up on Peacock, then P+?). >> >> That led to a dark few minutes for my wife (and for me, for failing to >> solve this problem). But then I downloaded the Paramount App to my IPad, >> and found that if I signed on through my provider (YouTubeTV) I was able to >> access previously aired S5 episodes. This led to premature celebrations >> though, as when my wife tried to access the app on her phone, we kept >> getting a message that our provider had not authorized access to the >> episodes. Again in the chilly doghouse, I was motivated to keep at it, and >> eventually found a way to sign on through the Google App. >> >> My wife is now watching the first five (I think) episodes of S5, so she >> will be able to talk to her sisters without shame tomorrow. >> >> But this whole thing has left me wondering why a third tier network would >> not be doing a better job of using one of the most popular shows on >> television to grow itself by making it easy for people to find it and join. >> Seems like it would be easy to allow us to click on something in P+ to go >> to Paramount. Or, why is there even such a thing as Paramount, at least as >> a thing that lives outside the Paramount Plus App as one of their many >> channels? >> >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BUzDy8ZH3jOdfDmYxO1NbP%2Be%2ByeHEAUrnMGDgELRWuaA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BUzDy8ZH3jOdfDmYxO1NbP%2Be%2ByeHEAUrnMGDgELRWuaA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . > > >> -- > Kevin M. 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