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Will broadcast TV ever die?
Jan. 17th, 2014 10:27 amBroadcast TV viewing figures are dropping year-by-year, with more and more people either switching to catch-up/on-demand or switching their attention elsewhere.*
TV shows are still regularly getting viewing figures in the UK of 7million, with peaks of up to 13million - which is worth maintaining a broadcast system for, and presumably a cost-effective use of the frequencies. I wonder at what point that stops being the case - if there were 3million people across the UK who still watched broadcast TV would that still be a good use of the frequencies? 1million?
Will there always be a mass market for Event TV - consumed the instant it appears? Or will we reach the point where it's as efficient to individually stream it to people?**
*Quite a good piece on that here.
**Protocols like BitTorrent make this kind of thing easy, of course - the more people there are downloading, the better. That kinda leaves out the "money making" side of things though...
TV shows are still regularly getting viewing figures in the UK of 7million, with peaks of up to 13million - which is worth maintaining a broadcast system for, and presumably a cost-effective use of the frequencies. I wonder at what point that stops being the case - if there were 3million people across the UK who still watched broadcast TV would that still be a good use of the frequencies? 1million?
Will there always be a mass market for Event TV - consumed the instant it appears? Or will we reach the point where it's as efficient to individually stream it to people?**
*Quite a good piece on that here.
**Protocols like BitTorrent make this kind of thing easy, of course - the more people there are downloading, the better. That kinda leaves out the "money making" side of things though...
