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Hundreds of streaming services and nothing to watch

Hundreds of streaming services and nothing to watch

Hundreds of streaming services and nothing to watch

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Most viewers wish there was a TV Guide for streaming.

“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.”

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“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.

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