They are far less reliant on advertising as an income stream than they used to be eg they've bought a load of production companies.
The future of TV
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They are far less reliant on advertising as an income stream than they used to be eg they've bought a load of production companies.
That's true but significantly reliant none the less. Don't forget also that the production companies are no longer producing!
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ITV issues a profit warning.
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ITV issues a profit warning.
Of course, ITV isn't alone in scaling back on production, this is a new reality for production studios globally.
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Of course, ITV isn't alone in scaling back on production, this is a new reality for production studios globally.
The point being that ITV diversified from being too reliant on advertising for its revenue having got into real difficulty at the beginning of the last decade and moved into production companies. Given the reduction of programme making, now they have a double whammy.
Let's hope they have more luck with Britbox.
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It depends how it plays out, owning production companies isn't such a bad thing. With a global limitation on new programmes, it should make the archive material more popular to broadcasters seeking out new (to them) content.
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It depends how it plays out, owning production companies isn't such a bad thing. With a global limitation on new programmes, it should make the archive material more popular to broadcasters seeking out new (to them) content.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with ITV's strategy to get into content production. I was simply drawing attention to the fact that the coronavirus has cut off both important sources of revenue for ITV. I think this could be quite serious for them if the social distancing measures are in place for many months.
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Well, VM will soon be killing off the hayu app...
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Well, VM will soon be killing off the hayu app...
Hopefully, to be replaced by something much better...
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The BBC and Channel 4 are planning how to fill the schedules with many of their programmes having to be pulled during the current emergency. They are planning on showing us even more stuff on coronavirus and archive Eurovision!
If that's how they believe they are going to compete with the streamers in their competition for viewers, it looks like they are going to lose big time.
They would be better advised to repeat some of their best dramas and popular TV shows from two or three years ago and some good films rather than depress us all with that rubbish!
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52038467
This is what awaits us on terrestrial TV
During WW2 the radio (the only main entertainment) produced shows such as ITMA (Its That Man Again) with Tommy Handley. Comedy that kept the nation going in those days
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Comedy that kept the nation going in those days
Trouble is TV these days doesn't "do" comedy. They have ersatz shows that think they're funny.
Looks like more downloads, DVDs and streams for us.
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Of course, ITV isn't alone in scaling back on production, this is a new reality for production studios globally.
Including the likes of Netflix.
It's interesting that viewing of linear tv in this current lockdown has actually risen.
They would be better advised to repeat some of their best dramas and popular TV shows from two or three years ago and some good films rather than depress us all with that rubbish!
Problem is they don't own many of them. I was reminded of this last week when I watched the film version of Downton Abby which is owned by Comcast (Universal) and not ITV.
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During WW2 the radio (the only main entertainment) produced shows such as ITMA (Its That Man Again) with Tommy Handley. Comedy that kept the nation going in those days
We need decent sitcoms, virus or not, not the London PC centred drivel that is currently shown.
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ITV issues a profit warning.
First thing that came into my head when I read this, is: takeover target. I've long thought that ITV will get taken over by someone and I think in this virus times, there will be a feeding frenzy at some point and lots of companies will get bought.
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Radio 4 programme about who will win the streaming wars?
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It's not a standard video or news link Richard, so won't embed. I've changed it into a link.
Thanks for posting it by the way. I will listen to it when I can.
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PSB is under review. The net is tightening for the BBC.
I don't wish ill for the Beeb, but they need to change direction and fully embrace the abandonment of traditional broadcasting and reliance on the licence fee.
I don't think public service broadcasting is as important as previous governments have cracked it up to be. People will end up choosing not to watch any of it. It's a relic of the past.
https://advanced-television.com/2020/03/27/uk-…der-psb-future/
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I am sick of coronavirus stuff on TV. It's depressing, repetitive and brainwashing. I watched Question Time the other night and that was the same old rubbish. I'm mostly flicking back and forth between Blaze, Smithsonian and the odd movie channel if there is a movie worth watching. I like the old Westerns when they come on. Other than that I'm listening to loads of music. I Must have downloaded over 10GB of music this week already. Easily done as I mostly only listen to hi bitrate/sample rate flac, sacd, iso's, no lossy compression for me and refuse to support streaming media.
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