Chris

That’s just a different website reporting the same story, and making the same mistakes - namely, conflating online delivery with on-demand viewing (one enables the other, but they are not the same thing); and failing to adequately address the capability gap between what Davie might like to do and what technology will permit him to do.

His comments are so heavily caveated as to be almost meaningless - they know they won’t be able to reach every part of the UK online by 2030. They are going to have to continue using at least one traditional broadcast method well beyond then to ensure coverage. And therefore, even if for that reason alone, they are of necessity committed to a full programme schedule.

Even after they go streaming only, there’s a strong argument for maintaining a drop schedule (one episode per week, a la Amazon, Disney, as opposed to series drops, like Netflix) to try to maintain engagement over a longer period. There’s also the fact that the BBC and ITV produce a lot of live light entertainment as well as live news and current affairs, plus continuing dramas like Eastenders and Coronation street which can’t be dropped in one go because there’s always more to come, and permitting binge watching would destroy the entire marketing strategy for these shows.

All in all it is vanishingly unlikely that they are going to stop doing appointment to view event TV so they can become like just A. N. Other streaming platform. Why would they swap their advantage for anonymity?