Fully agree MM. But that is old stuff. You look at the numbers for the amount of new tv shows/episodes being produced, Netflix is making far more than Disney and Fox combined. Amazon, though, are still way, way behind for now.
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
The programmes that UKTV broadcast have already been paid for by our TV Licence. Then, even though we pay to watch them again, we are being denied the opportunity. This is at the same time as some channels and much programming are made available to Freeview & Freesat viewers.
Whilst the channels are missing i'm considering cancelling my TVL and will be getting a reduction from VM, either by a better deal to reflect the missing channels or downgrading. I shall then cancel when my contract ends.
The BBC want to have their cake and eat it by selling linear content to us (again) and then the VOD rights to the likes of Netflix.
VM are as much to blame for trying to cut carriage fees. Whilst they do have legitimate arguments, if they win this will simply boost their profits and won't be passed on to us.
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RC, I've copied your post into this thread as its more relevant here.
This is all related to the media mergers in defence against the streaming companies.
The BBC, ITV and Ch4 want to create a combined streaming service to compete against Netflix. They currently have a service in America called Britbox. They want to launch that service, or something similar here.
They also want to distinguish their services from Sky and Vm's paytv services and essentially make Freeview and their streaming service as the place to go for TV, with obviously the three of them in overall control.
As I said in my above post, I think the broadcast channels will survive for a long time to come and clearly so do the paytv companies as they have moved some of their services or rebranded services onto Freeview. But where does that leave pay tv? My reply to that is, it doesn't. Something has to give.