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For the past few years, the big TV networks made easy money selling their reruns to Netflix.
Now they're having second thoughts.
So are they ready to pull back on sales to Netflix and other digital services in the hopes of keeping their core business intact?
Investors will be looking for an answer to that question this week and next, as most of the big entertainment companies report their Q3 earnings and take questions from analysts. But several key TV executives have already signaled that they're going to stop selling their best stuff to digital services — particularly Netflix.
Binge-viewing has been established as the new method to consume content--that is the genie they need to stuff back in the bottle.
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Can the TV Guys Put the Netflix Genie Back in the Bottle?
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Don't believe everything you hear or anything you say.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:19PM
TV networks could kill Netflix tomorrow if they wanted. Make a single service that has all the content that everyone wants streamable as much as they want with no commercials for the same price as Netflix.
The big networks want to push everyone back to the 60s, that we only have a few choices of content and that we must consume them when and how they want with as much advertising built in as they think we can stand.
Sorry general, you have already lost this war too.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh