NickSCFC wrote:Moggy wrote:There is nothing wrong with a bit of trash TV. Not everything has to be intellectually worthy and sometimes you just want to flake out in front of the TV watching entertaining rubbish.
The problem is that the main TV stations are full of trash TV. Especially on a Saturday night, there is rarely anything worth watching on the 5 main channels.
Which is not a problem for me, I have Netflix, Amazon Prime and video games, but it is not unreasonable to think that the main stations should show something other than singing (not counting DML’s show
)or lowest common denominator shite.
Isn't broadcast TV on the decline while the use of streaming is growing?I couldn't imagine spending an evening watching ITV (unless ITV4 are showing the Running Man or something).
This is a little bit of a common misnomer.
TV audiences are going down - but thats because there is more choice. We watch no less live television than we did 50 years ago, the only difference is there are many more channels. I've seen a study on this and its honestly a straight line, no decline at all.
Of course that brings its own issues. Lowering budgets and more choice make it harder to make money and high quality television all the time.
People are moving to streaming, but use is way lower than you think. The majority of people still don't stream, I think we are a good decade off being in a place where streaming is more used than not. Models like Netflix seem to make a lot of money, but actually probably don't.
Basically there is an awful lot of older people keeping TV a thing, and even when there isn't I'm still pretty convinced a main stream channel of live entertainment will be wanted.