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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Chris is perpetuating the lie that I said linear channels would be gone by 2025. I said 2035, and both you and he know that.
2025 was the date I envisaged that most properties would be connected to broadband, although I was basing that on the government’s plans at the time.
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Except that you obviously weren’t. Here’s that part of the thread:
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...4#post35757394
I posted that a former president of HBO believed there was a long-term future for linear broadcast because it creates ‘water-cooler moments’ that you can only derive from a shared viewing experience. (You can’t get that from streaming, by design.)
You clearly understood what he had said, then dismissed it, and predicted things would look ‘so different’ by 2025.
There is absolutely nothing whatsoever in your post that anyone could possibly understand to mean you were making some comment about availability of broadband. Blind Freddie can see you were trying to contradict Callender’s prediction that linear broadcast would be resilient.
Face it … 10 years on (your metric, not his), you have been proven categorically wrong. Every significant linear broadcaster still exists, a ton of IP-based linear-scheduled FAST channels nobody even predicted have come into being, and there are more streamers available in the UK market which plenty, but by no means all, households subscribe to
in addition to their habitual use of linear broadcast schedules.
Incidentally, Colin Callender is still working in TV production at the highest levels and his list of credits is as long as your arm. I’d still listen to his predictions of the future of his industry over yours, any day of the week.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0130456/