I can tell everyone when my linear tv viewing started to drop dramatically and that was when ntl increased the broadband speeds around 2004 ish. Read into that what you want...
If the BBC, ITV, Ch4 and 5 showed the shows I want to watch, I would watch them. But they don't. The quality and variety has dropped dramatically on the main channels.
I too used to love getting the Christmas tv guides and planning viewing, but that's gone out of the window long ago. With the internet and being able to chit chat about any old rubbish on forums like these to fill time has also eaten a lot into my tv viewing time. So, like zantorous, I watch a lot less tv but better quality.
What I find interesting between the broadcasters here and in the States and how they have reacted to streaming services is they have gone in complete opposite directions.
Here, quality has gone down. Yes, the BBC do still do dramas, but they're so scattered all over the schedule that I generally miss them and I have no idea what the others do as I don't bother with them.
But in the States they increased substantially the amount of dramas and comedies they do. Yes, some of it is complete rubbish, but a lot of it isn't. And there is such variety in the kind of shows they do from the bog standard police/medical procedural to fantasy/sci-fi fare like Game of Thrones.
Perhaps its not a big deal that the new Star Trek show will not be on "normal" tv, but I think it is.
As I have said before, I do not expect the likes of Netflix to survive another ten years, I assume the big media companies would have bought them out by then/launched their own streaming services. But we are in a new world.
I always looked forward to finding which big film would be on ITV on a Saturday night only then to have it ruined by the news "interruption". Now there is choice,
real choice.
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I think you make some good points there Horizon. In essence, content is king though brands eg BBC, Channel 4 have a lot of pull too.
The current pay-TV sports business models favour Sky Sports and BT Sport but elsewhere different models may surface. In Germany, Perform Group has launched an OTT service called DAZN (which translates as all sports, one platform). It will offer web-video rights of the Bundesliga, other European football, US sports like NBA and NFL, tennis, handball, ice-hockey, darts and other sports live and on-demand for a monthly fee. It will be available via smart TVs, tablets, smartphones, PCs, laptops and games consoles. The service will be offered in HD quality with Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 surround sound. Selected content will be provided in Ultra HD/4K.
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10+ million people don't pay for Sky because they love Murdoch, but because they have the football and film rights. Now BT is chipping away at Murdoch's dominance, I believe his reign will start to fade.
You then only need someone like Netflix to pick up just one batch of football matches and it will erode Sky down further until the current pay tv model becomes unsustainable.