Thread: VOD Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Old 26-12-2019, 15:35   #1217
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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Originally Posted by Horizon View Post
On this occasion, the three channels being axed (and there maybe more to follow) is the result of the CBS/Viacom merger and Comcast's takeover of Sky. There are just too many channels.

However, if a pattern starts to emerge here that media companies start to withhold content for their own channels only and exclude other's content, then yes, that would be a clear signal of major changes as a result of the rise of the streamers.
When Sky acquired the Flextech group of channels they reduced the total number of channels. It didn't herald the end of television as we know it then, I doubt this will now.
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