“Fifty-seven channels, and nothin’ on.”
Bruce Springsteen famously said those words during a concert and later in a song in the 1990s about the number of TV channels seemingly growing disproportionately to the availability of enjoyable content.
Within a few years, there would be hundreds of TV channels and still, some would argue in hyperbolic frustration, “nothing to watch.”
The advent of streaming services was poised as a potential solution to this problem. It granted viewers easy, on-demand access to thousands of movies and shows, which, theoretically, could ensure that viewers could always find something to watch.
