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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
If pay tv provided only reality tv, they would soon find that people were less likely to pay a subscription to watch it. I most certainly would not and in fact I find myself revisiting the value of pay tv more and more frequently these days.
Your argument falls really because we have no public service streaming operator, and yet the two big commercial services (Netflix and Amazon Prime) are providing many, many hours of quality programming without any real BBC competition. That is the future, and frankly, the Beeb will struggle to keep up.
The argument for having a public service broadcaster will diminish substantially as this transformation takes place and the broadcast scheduled TV channels close down.
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There is no PSB operator doing exclusively on-demand streaming, however the BBC operates BBC Three as an on-demand streaming service - only a selection of its output on Three is then broadcast by traditional means. It is also increasingly promoting its regionally-produced material (mostly but not exclusively current affairs output) because it is always on iPlayer nationwide for 30 days after broadcast regardless of which BBC nation or region commissioned it.