Thread: VOD The future for linear TV channels
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Old 29-03-2016, 14:40   #756
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Re: The future for linear TV channels
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Originally Posted by muppetman11 View Post
Is Netflix taking over ? Not according to BARB but what do they know.

http://www.barb.co.uk/tv-landscape-r...x-taking-over/
But it is to be expected at this stage. I have always said that the pressure on linear channels is not likely to become financially worrisome for a few years, although we cannot rule out an upsurge of SVOD viewing in the meantime, as the TV audience gets more used to the immediacy of on demand viewing compared with traditional TV.

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
Newspapers are a terrific example OB, because cinema and radio began competing with them a century ago, then TV, and then Internet, and it has only been in the last 5 years that they have come under serious pressure (and the major titles are actually still doing ok).

This does not sit well with your fanciful prediction of Internet delivery of tv content causing the abolition of broadcast delivery in 10 years (or even in 20 years).
Clearly, newspapers still exist in printed form, but they are under increasing pressure.

Things are more precarious for broadcast TV due to the economics of running commercial TV channels. They can only survive if they can attract sufficient viewers, so everything is down to viewer behaviour.
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