Isn’t that what Freeview was supposed to be?
Hulu is a subscription platform (coming soon to Disney+ worldwide). I assume TVHead is referring to a common subscription platform owned by Seven, Nine and 10.
Instead of establishing yet another streaming platform in an oversaturated industry, could it be more sensible for Seven and 10 to buy into Stan (if Nine was open to the idea)?
I’ve said for ages that the commercial stations need to look at their multi channels and stop “competing” per se, and be genre specific. So for example:
7Two - becomes British Classics
9Gem - becomes W (for women)
7mate - becomes Bloke TV
7Flix - becomes Movies TV
10 Drama - becomes Drama Channel
And share programs - have one person from the networks be program manager and share revenue
Et al
They already are targeting those genres but don’t need changes that make them more restrictive.
10 switching from 10 Bold to 10 Drama is rather silly when they show so many other programs on that channel which are not dramas. You don’t need any of those other channels you listed changing their names either because they screen other genres too.
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What in I’m saying is make the channel genre specific. Instead of Home Shopping followed by Here’s Lucy followed by The Man Show.
If you have a Movies channel, just screen movies. If you have a Comedy Channel, show comedies only.
Stop being all things to all people badly - Get together, work on the 12 or so extra channels and make them watchable.
I’d suggest that’s the best option too
It would be nice to have more multichannels but realistically it is unlikely with audiences shrinking further and further every day. With streaming taking all their viewers away, I’d say the networks are more likely to start shutting down some of the multichannels they already have to cut costs.
I don’t think RabbitEars is suggesting there should be more multichannels. Instead, the suggestion is Nine, Seven & 10 should work together and not have multichannels tied to networks but rather formats which can utilise all three networks’ program libraries.
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They’re not going to open their program library to help a rival.
I think it’s a good idea in principle, but I also think the time for that has passed. The networks clearly don’t have the same depth of inventory that they had 10-15 years ago.
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I don’t think there any proper studio supply deals left from the majors like they used to have since subscription has become the flavour but the Americans don’t help themselves always expecting more for so-so overall content in a non-growth industry.
Correct. Start to realise your commercial stations are not your real rival anymore. Streamers are. Just tonight a report in the AFR says the overseas streamers are extending the gap with the local ones. Work together and be as strong as you can be.