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Originally Posted by jfman
Not sure why you insist on personalising it.
However as I’ve said all along it costs buttons to create a linear channel from content you own the rights to. Whether that’s broadcast, or an automated playlist, is neither here nor there.
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Now, that’s funny!
As I have said before, the TV companies will only continue to provide linear TV while it makes them money. Once it is no longer worth their while to run all those channels, with all the time and expense of scheduling and filling the gaps in the schedule with dross (which still has to be paid for), they will honour their commitment to their shareholders to maximise their profits. Uploading content to a streamer is far more straight forward than the alternative.
When you add up
- The number of staff required all in all for scheduling;
- The building space they require;
- The cost of the rights to show cheaper programmes to fill the gaps (there are no gaps on VOD);
- The satellite transponder space required or the costs of broadcasting space from transmitters, etc;
I think you will find it costs rather more than buttons to run TV channels.
The only considerations really are whether the government can ensure the rollout of broadband within their existing timetable, which now seems to be in doubt, and for how long most viewers will continue to give conventional broadcast channels the support they have now. Those are the real considerations, not some romantic view that some people have about watching TV the old fashioned way.