Give people more choice, and are they happy? No.

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Red Bee research reveals discontent among viewers

17 November, 2011 | By Catherine Neilan

Three-quarters of the UK audience claim they cannot
find anything to watch on live TV on a weekly basis
because they are overwhelmed by an excess of content
and platforms.

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http://www.broadcastnow.co.UK/news/broadcasters/red-bee-research-reveals-discontent-among-viewers/5034733.article

This does not surprise me at all. also of course because it sub divided the
advertising revenue, the effect is only going to get worse as fewer people
watch each channel and hence each channel has less to spend on anything
decent to watch. I read somewhere that the happy medium of channels is
around 6, any more and it makes revenues too low. Of course subscription
rather than free is another thing. In our current state of enforced
subscription to the bbc and some free supported by adverts, the waters are
muddier.

Brian

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Give people more choice, and are they happy? No.

QUOTE

Red Bee research reveals discontent among viewers

17 November, 2011 | By Catherine Neilan

Three-quarters of the UK audience claim they cannot
find anything to watch on live TV on a weekly basis
because they are overwhelmed by an excess of content
and platforms.

UNQUOTE

Pay to read at

http://www.broadcastnow.co.UK/news/broadcasters/red-bee-research-reveals-discontent-among-viewers/5034733.article

In article ,
J G Miller writes:
Give people more choice, and are they happy? No.

QUOTE

Red Bee research reveals discontent among viewers

17 November, 2011 | By Catherine Neilan

Three-quarters of the UK audience claim they cannot
find anything to watch on live TV on a weekly basis
because they are overwhelmed by an excess of content
and platforms.

UNQUOTE

Isn't the real problem that the supposed "excess of content" is anything
but, once you strip out all the repeats? The number of programmes that
are both interesting and new is pretty small. But the claim that
three-quarters of the public can't find anything to watch on a weekly
basis would seem to be disproved by the viewing figures.
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On Friday, November 18th, 2011 at 21:33:16h +0000, John Hall wrote:

Isn't the real problem that the supposed "excess of content" is anything
but, once you strip out all the repeats? The number of programmes that
are both interesting and new is pretty small.

That is exactly the problem -- finding the interesting material amongst
all the dross is a challenge beyond the capabilities of many members of
the viewing public.

On 18/11/2011 09:11, Brian Gaff wrote:
This does not surprise me at all. also of course because it sub divided the
advertising revenue, the effect is only going to get worse as fewer people
watch each channel and hence each channel has less to spend on anything
decent to watch. I read somewhere that the happy medium of channels is
around 6, any more and it makes revenues too low. Of course subscription
rather than free is another thing. In our current state of enforced
subscription to the bbc and some free supported by adverts, the waters are
muddier.

Brian


Before the digital era, I used to think that American TV demonstrated
this point perfectly. If you stayed in a New York hotel you got 12
channels of rubbish at a time when we just had 3-4 channels in the UK.

One advantage of the licence fee is that the BBC's income is largely
assured, and they are not so dependent on retaining viewers as ITV for
example.


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Michael Chare