Thread: The future of television
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Old 31-07-2024, 11:59   #950
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Re: The future of television
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Which linear broadcast channels have reduced their hours on the basis of their being less content available?

There’s plenty of content out there. There has never been more content.

In practice you have such a dystopian view of the future that the exact same series on a “streamer” would be good and on a linear channel like ITV1 would be bad without consideration of the content at all.
Jfman, please open your eyes. There may be no shortage of content, but the issue is the quality of that content. Channels are not reducing their hours, they are closing down. We have lost popular channels such as FX and Disney; Channel 4 has just announced the closure of five music channels; Sky is desperate to shore up its channels by duplicating programmes on Sky Showcase and the Sky Cinema channels are relying even more on the showing of films that they have shown before. The best content is going to the streamers and the TV channels are losing out.

I’m glad you are perfectly happy with this situation, jfman, but many of us are not, and that’s why so many are resorting to the streamers. Soon, they will stop paying for TV channels altogether, because everything will be on the streamers. The TV channels will either die off naturally or the plug will be pulled at some point.

There are more free options coming along now as well, which will encourage Freeview only viewers to opt in as the new Freely service takes over.

I’m not ‘gagging’ for all this, which you claim persistently - I am merely observing what I see in front of my eyes. I don’t really understand why you are getting so exercised about it - it’s not me making it happen!
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