Can I point out that for most scheduled linear channels to close by 2035, a number of things would have to happen.
1) The PSB mandate would have to be abolished
2) Appropriate broadband would have to be installed to nearly all the country, including all those out of the way towns, villages, and hamlets
3) 25 million people would have to change their viewing habits drastically
To explain 3) further, let’s look the U.K. demographics - at the moment, most of the move away from linear broadcasting is in the under-35s. In the U.K. today, the average life-span is 81 (averaging out male/female life expectancy), and the age breakdown (rounded figures) is as follows -
0-35 - 29 million
35-64 - 25.5million
64+ - 12 million
For the sake of discussion, let’s say the existing 64+ will have shuffled off this mortal coil in 14 years - that leaves over 25 million who are major users of linear broadcasting.
I find it difficult to see the circumstances where a majority of that group of viewers would give up how they currently view from a combination of linear and streaming to streaming only.
