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Originally Posted by spiderplant
Here are last week's top viewed programmes (source: BARB). This is why it won't happen.
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Indeed.
Not only do we viewers clearly still want a broadcast schedule, the broadcasters need a broadcast presence in order to advertise these top-rated shows to us. They cost a fortune to make and even if they were available on demand only, there would need to be some way of alerting us to the date and time when they became available to stream. And if Bit Torrent and Newsgroups have taught us anything, it's that the biggest fans of the biggest shows all want to see them as quickly as possible anyway; that's why the gap between broadcast in the territory where a show originated and broadcast in other places a broadcaster has bought the rights has shrunk until it's now almost non existent in many cases.
They call it "appointment to view" TV, and it's never going away.