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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
This shows just how serious the loss of content available to our conventional TV stations will be. And this article merely concentrates on Disney. Think about how the TV channels will fill their schedules if most studios pull content in this way.
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Well they won’t, will they.
Sky and Disney both operate pay tv services that carry first run and other premium and/or exclusive content. Naturally Sky is under threat if content creators like Disney are no longer willing to sell that sort of material to them. But then that’s why Sky is investing in UK based production facilities. It knows it has to get into the business of making quality programmes rather than simply having the will and the means to buy exclusive rights to stuff.
I don’t know whether you’ve noticed but, largely because of Sky’s strategy over the last 25 years, BBC and ITV do not rely on expensive American imports for their prime time content any more. They make most of their own content, while smaller channels that run on shoestring budgets mostly broadcast old, low-value content of the sort that Disney and others aren’t going to be in any hurry to lock behind a paywall.