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Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday July 13 2019, @10:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the pray-I-do-not-alter-it-any-further dept.

Chocolate wrote in with a submission that was the inspiration for:

It's difficult to imagine that Friends, a show that ended 15 years ago, could be of any real importance to a modern streaming giant like Netflix.

In fact the sitcom, which features a bunch of 20-somethings living together in a time before streaming was even invented, is US Netflix's second-most watched show.

Today, Netflix announced that it's poised to lose its rights to broadcast the series to its original parent company, Warner, which plans to launch its own streaming service, HBO Max in the first quarter of 2020.

The blow follows another announcement in June that Netflix's number one series, the US version of The Office, is also being snatched back by its creators, NBCUniversal, to be broadcast exclusively in the US on its own yet-to-be-launched streaming service.

Old media, analysts are noting with no small amount of surprise, is suddenly bringing the fight to Netflix, and it looks like Netflix could be the one that gets knocked out, or at least very knocked around.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/home-entertainment/tv/huge-threat-to-netflix-revealed/news-story/e86f7778556735d22e4cd9f054fb51af

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Chocolate on Sunday July 14 2019, @10:34AM (1 child)

    by Chocolate (8044) on Sunday July 14 2019, @10:34AM (#866842) Journal

    Where would we be if they had shown the first half of the first season of Friends out of order, at different times of the week, and then cancelled the show after the 13th episode due to low ratings?

    Probably one of the best features of Netflix and their kin is the ability to watch a TV series in order, and go back and rewatch. Normal TV can't hold a candle to this.

    What I really don't understand is why the regular TV stations never brought out their own TV shows with their own schedules including ads for free to meet demand. A lot of people say they would have watched a couple of ads in exchange for free TV online. That said, I can't watch the crap they have now because they keep showing the same ads over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday July 14 2019, @03:24PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday July 14 2019, @03:24PM (#866915) Journal

    A. men.

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