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Excellent news - perhaps someone will now provide real entertainment instead of juvenile offerings.
It looks like Terrestrial channels are really struggling financially.
Paul O'Grady's Channel 4 chatshow 'likely to finish at end of year' | Media | guardian.co.uk
Excellent news - perhaps someone will now provide real entertainment instead of juvenile offerings.
O'Grady himself has said it's all twaddle and that he accepts he'll have to take a paycut (and Richard and Judy are a reminder that the grass isn't always greener elsewhere).
But what can you cut in the budget for a chat show? A cheaper sofa? The majority of the guests want to appear because they're plugging something.
Beginning of the end for commercial TV? It would not surprise me - certainly if you mean free-to-air.
Isn't it the case that SITV can't afford to buy expensive quality programmes from the ITV stable eg Marple? There may be a lesson here for those who claim that the BBC could scrap the licence fee and fund itself through advertising ...
name='DB7']O'Grady himself has said it's all twaddle and that he accepts he'll have to take a paycut (and Richard and Judy are a reminder that the grass isn't always greener elsewhere).
But what can you cut in the budget for a chat show? A cheaper sofa? The majority of the guests want to appear because they're plugging something.
Perhaps dont pay these untalented people too much.I dont think there warrant more than the average wage and I would not miss them one bit.
name='frame69']Perhaps dont pay these untalented people too much.I dont think there warrant more than the average wage and I would not miss them one bit.
Whatever you thoughts on the presenters that is not the problem, C4 cannot afford the production costs for what is a basically a chat show.
The show is successful but there is simply not enough advertising to fund it. What hope is there for drama( expensive to produce) and challenging programmes with small prospective audiences?
Advertising revenue has been fragmented due to far too many channels coming on line all wanting a slice of the cake (a downside of the digital revolution) and by the internet attracting more and more of companies' advertising budgets. I think the old business model is broken beyond repair.
name='alan gowdy']Advertising revenue has been fragmented due to far too many channels coming on line all wanting a slice of the cake (a downside of the digital revolution) and by the internet attracting more and more of companies' advertising budgets. I think the old business model is broken beyond repair.
Agree with that.
Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK | Media | The Guardian
There is too many channels chasing too few advertisers.
Advertising will no longer fund the full spectrum of programming. The licence fee will continually be challenged - eventually it will become untenable with ever-increasing yearly rates and growing opposition to the very principle of paying the BBC for the right to own and operate a TV (never mind other ways to view on the internet). Pay Per View may be the only way to see 'quality' programming (or specific interest programmes) in a few years. After all, it's what people have been doing every time they've visited a cinema for the last hundred years!
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