[jfman]

Originally Posted by cheekyangus

I don't disagree in principle with what you say there OLD BOY, but I fear it won't work out in practice for many interests. One my points is that minority content may not be viable to produce and therefore not exist at all, if, or mostly likely when, the present predominant funding models change.

An all access season pass for badminton (for example) at £7 a month may not get enough subscribers to continue. They may need it to be £7 to cover costs with the potential interested user numbers, but not enough of those may be willing to pay it, so it may need to be increased £15 with that number of willing subscribers, and then even less would be willing to pay it at that level, and so the end result is no badminton shown to anyone at all.

A similar model for tennis may work, simply because it's more popular and will cover costs, though not football level popular.

And tiddlywinks, well that's simply not got a chance as an individual subscription.

But they might all be viable on a multi-sport or multi-genre service, simply because it brings the economy of scale to make them all viable.

I suspect Old Boy is simply trying to undermine the strength of traditional operators because they aren’t dying off for his streaming future.