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'Netflix Effect' Poses Challenge to British TV

posted by mrpg on Thursday July 19 2018, @07:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the please-dont-adapt-anime dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

BBC:

Video streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime now have more subscribers than traditional pay TV services in the UK, new data from Ofcom has revealed.

The media regulator says British TV will have to change the way it operates if it wants to compete with the internet giants.

Sharon White, Ofcom's chief executive, says: "We'd love to see broadcasters such as the BBC work collaboratively with ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 so that they have got that scale to compete globally, making shows together, co-producing great shows that all of us can watch.

"I think it would be great to see a British Netflix."

BrexitFlix?

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday July 19 2018, @05:50PM

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday July 19 2018, @05:50PM (#709538) Journal
    Yeah mate 150 lbs is not insignificant at all, but it's the principle of the thing that's even important here.

    These are private citizens, poorly trained and not properly overseen, going around bullying people into doing things they don't have any obligation to do, in order to extract rent they are not entitled to, often from people so poor that paying it means a real hardship. No one respects that, and no one should respect that.

    Any and every decent person in the country will monkeywrench them, one way or another. That's just how it works in a healthy society - we don't tolerate bullies, not everyone has to confront them head on but everyone in the block WILL work together to support whoever does. When we're the targets of bullying, we resist. When it's that nice old lady next door, or old Joe that came back from Korea with no legs, well then we start to really get angry.

    Quit being so myopic. Not everything has to be justified in terms of short term individual gain. Sometimes we take on extra work, for the benefit of the community.

    If you sent one of these 'inspectors' around over here, he'd be quickly surrounded by community watch and asked to leave.

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