I think he pays them every time it gets reshown
The next bit in that Guardian article is worth a quote, too:
To complicate matters, World and Mammoth are now part of ITV, which has recently followed a canny strategy of gathering more than 60 independent production companies under the umbrella of ITV Studios. This has led to the oddity of ‘BBC shows’ having their streaming rights sold by ITV to Netflix, as happened with Bodyguard and Poldark.
Are you seriously claiming it was better than Iranian dramas from the same period? That’s potty!
£5 a month sub I heard. That’s the problem - it also devalues Netflix a lot in the process as we’ll no longer get BBC and ITV (not so bothered about that) shows on there.
Spotify seems to have managed to bring all music to a single platform (bar a few exceptions here and there) so why can’t we have the same for TV?
The TV industry knows what it’s doing with online licensing, and the music industry totally fucked it?
His next paragraph doesn’t make much sense though, ITV Studios generally own the distribution rights to the progs (for a period at least) and/or own these companies, the issue’s how long the deal with Netflix lasts, after that they can shift them wherever they like I’d have thought.
How come Channel 4 are allowed to fill All4 with stuff? Haven’t read the article
Would have just sorted it out at the time, they’re in the same position as the BBC now, they own virtually nothing they show anymore.
Plus All 4 has ads, which presumably helps cover the costs.
Also All4 clearly haven’t spent a single penny updating their app in the last 10 years as it is still completely unusable
I waa watching Robot Chicken on there last week and there were 5 minutes of ads per 11 minute episode. Infuriating.
I am NOT watching anything called BritBox.
Does it still crash halfway through episodes and make you watch 3 minutes of ads to get back to where you were?
Personalised ads and ones where you’re given the option to choose which one you want to watch. I don’t give a fuck All4, you’re on mute mate.
Can confirm this still happens.
“Why am I having to pay twice to watch BBC content? A decade ago UK viewers would pay the BBC licence fee and then – if they really liked a show – buy the DVD from a high-street shop, essentially paying twice for the same content. With DVD sales in decline, BritBox is replicating the second part of this transaction. However, a generation of viewers who have grown up with streaming services may find it confusing that they have to pay £12.90 a month for the BBC licence fee and then an extra sum to watch the same BBC programmes after an arbitrary cut-off date.”
WHAT??
Can’t comment on how Spotify went about it, but consumers will soon demand one single shop front.
Dunno really.
A typical sky/cable package runs you, what, £30-40 a month? That’s equivalent of a whole bunch of streaming services that are £7-8 each.
Now, something you can plug them all into, to have a single front-end, that would be useful…
30-40% advertising as well. Pumped into my house, for a fee. No thanks
I obviously don’t have Brit Box but as an expat I am currently their target demographic so it gets advertised to me a lot.
It just seems to be shite like Keeping Up Appearances so can’t imagine it’s gonna be that popular.
