Cue Lexington to cut in here and dismantle your comment.
I would say it’s probably a possibility. You just don’t know with this lot. Can’t run a business to save them a fish in a car.
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How much is there left to cut at Ten? The fat has long been trimmed, so they’re now getting rid of vital organs (local news, children’s programming)!
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I would dare hope they wouldn’t touch Neighbours
I think Neighbours should be safe, being a show which helps to fill the network’s local content/drama quotas. Besides there seems to be still enough interest from overseas markets that FremantleMedia Australia would probably continue to produce the show even in the unlikely chance that Ten were to drop it.
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Neighbours would have got the chop 10+ years ago if it wasn’t for the UK essentially paying for its production in broadcast rights.
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Where else are they going to cut from? They’ve slashed news, culled in house kids production that survived four or five management regimes… gotten rid of various other admin roles.
Not much more to kill from 10.
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They could make the 5pm News fully national with no state-specific variations?
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The article gives a hint
He (Villani) would not be drawn on whether these efficiencies would translate into redundancies, saying his focus was more on infrastructure, technology and finance systems efficiencies.
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Are you able to see the whole article?
I’m curious to see what they said about 10 play if possible?
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What till the Low Cost Network Revolution sets in.
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Why stop there? Ten - the no News Network.
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Very little:
“Ms McGarvey said the focus of the business was growing digital, with a focus on growing Ten’s broadcast-video-on-demand (BVOD) offering 10play and ensuring the company can effectively monetise that audience.”
Then the story moves on to the 10 All Access rebrand coming mid-year.
PS: Google the headline and you may be able to read the entire article.
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Thank you for sharing, I did try to access it another way but didn’t work.
But just curious since that was the headline, but hadn’t really been mentioned anywhere.
could this be that in the future 10 could be an online-only channel’?
They give up their spectrum then the government sells it to someone else? Seems unlikely anytime soon.
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If they went online-only it would be instant death for the network.
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Perhaps in the far future we’ll see all television and radio networks become online-only services, but like you I’m not expecting this to happen anytime soon.
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It might’ve happened by now if Labor’s original fibre-to-the-premises NBN hadn’t been stopped by Abbott & co, but now, there are still too many people with crappy Internet at home.
For me already the free-to-air broadcast supplementary channels being in standard definition make them awful to watch on my (139 cm) UHD TV, but I can get HD streams of those same channels.
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The fact that some statistics say that up to 70% of Australians have taken on a streaming service of some sort, suggests the internet quaility has little to do with it.
The problem is that the advertising business model of FTA telly doesn’t work in a streaming environment. 10 Play, like the others, does such a crap job at integrating ads - and with all the other on demand services offering an uninterrupted service… it’s really a no brainer why they’re not as successful.
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I have seen a huge improvement with this on Apple TV since the update a few months ago.
Product placement really is the way forward unfortunately. Some shows do it well, but most are terrible.
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