Senior figures in the UK TV industry are contemplating how best to secure its future

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64004969

“We’re in danger of having no public service broadcasting within a decade, certainly within 20 years,” he says. “We don’t have a strategy for their survival. It’s that serious. The regulators need to start thinking about it.”

Do we want a future where European media is dominated by US streamers like Netflix and YouTube, and European broadcasters are a shadow of their former selves or have even ceased to exist?

  • ximtor@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    my first thought goes to YT, not tv which would come second (without an ad-blocker, how many ads are there with each single video on YT?)

    Oh i completely agree with you and hate it whenever i get in contact with YT. It’s just not the first thing to think about for me as I try not to use it in the first place ^^. I generally can’t understand how people use the internet without ad blockers, it’s obnoxious and easy to forget if one has all devices properly setup to block that crap.

    I would like for us to stay diverse and not become a second-class wannabe US consumers (not even citizens). But I could be wrong, obviously, and maybe that would be amazing to eat the same cultural production the US as feasted upon?

    I also agree with your sentiment. My statement was based on the vibe I got, á la “we don’t want to change we just want to keep it as is and be protected by rules”. I just meant that the whole TV thing needs to evolve. That dows not mean everything should adopt the US way, but they can’t expect people to just keep sitting at home and watch TV when it just doesn’t keep up.

    Unfortunately many alternatives for many people are only Netflix and the likes…but I would just love if Europe would at least try to beat them with alternatives and not just stick with what we know and ban the evil US.

    I should also take a few min to read the article…