Re: Large bundles of Channels
 

Hey, what's this? The 2016 Ofcom CMR is out! Let's see what it says...

"Time spent watching broadcast TV continued to decline in 2015, but more slowly than the accelerated decline of the last two years."

"The proportion of GB adults claiming to use on-demand services accelerated between 2010 and 2013 but slowed considerably between 2014 and 2015"

Re: Large bundles of Channels
 

Blip? 🙄

Re: Large bundles of Channels
 

Exactly this, going forward many people have and will realise that paying for bundles of channels is not what they want, they want to choose what channels they want to watch and only pay for those channels. There is too much smoke and mirrors on this, most channels show rubbish no one wants to watch, then you get groups of channels from companies, that show the same shows but just rotate the schedules on different channels on different days.
premium sky/BT channels aside if you audited all the channels and what they show that is available on other channels at some point during a calendar month, you could throw over half of the channels away.
Then if you took the channels that have less than a 1000 people watching them at some time during 8 am - 8 pm you might be left with about less than 40 channels.
Freesat/freeview and now tv is many people's choice these days, if BT ever make their channels available on a casual basis via their freeview box it could be the end for VM as a TV supplier.

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Yes but I've done loads of surveys over viewing habits via yougov which is obviously where of com get their data from, and:
1. They base live tv viewing on watching a program for at least 5 minutes, which isn't a good representation.
2. There are currently more live TV sports than ever before, this is something that tends to be watched live and isn't available via Netflix and Amazon so it really keeps the average up.
3. The questions they ask are retarded, it's as if they don't understand what is they are researching, and as such the answer to the question isn't really correct.

Re: Large bundles of Channels
 

"Obviously"? There are many broadcasters and advertisers that might want that data.

Ofcom use several different methods to collect the data. There's more detail in the report if you're interested.

Seems pretty sensible to me. You have to put a cut-off somewhere to exclude people flicking through stuff just to see what's on.

You really need to read the report. Sport is the genre that declined most!

Pretty sure that isn't Ofcom. They know their stuff.