TV IS DYING! | Traditional Telly Is DONE 

TV does live events like no one else!

If I ever watch tv, it’s because I’m watching a live sports broadcast

@justaguy9224 like the majority of people no doubt. I think the new series I watched when it premiered om tv was It's A Sin. By that I mean, I watched the 1st episode live and then straight after went on All4 (as it was then) and binge watched the rest of the series until the early hours.

​@@whatamalikeImagine watching gay stuff until the early hours. 🙄

​@@bigbabatunde1218imagine being homophobic in 2023. Cretin.

Dude. Me too.

This is just a transition. The situation where studios have their own service and only show their own stuff is never going to survive. Netflix exploded because everything was on netflix. And streaming will only stagnate until they adopt a model like music streamers have adopted. A third party streamer like netflix or someone else, or maybe a couple big ones that compete, that studios licence to and recieve a royalty based on viewer numbers or something of that sort. Until that happens streaming will not be able to take over.

@@Diogo85 With so many alternative media sources, accepting television's rigid programming seems a poor choice to me. I haven't watched any television in many years. Computers/iPads etc are always with you, and so much more convenient.

@@artistjoh I still watch TV but not as much as I used to. Streaming services have made it easier to watch shows you've never watched and rewatch old shows that you have watched in the past.

I got rid of Netflix and I don't miss it.

@@Theresabrown1805 Netflix is miles better than whatever is churned out by BBC/ITV/Sky. Channel 4 is ok

For your first point, it just so happens there's a dedicated website to archiving idents and channel presentation in general known as the Ident Gallery.

Agreed. The BBC has failed to take advantage of its back catalogue & should launch a BBC Gold Channel where young people can watch & review their classic comedies & dramas in full. I think there would be global demand for this content.

Ah yes, so that the BBC can bend over to advertisers more easily! The license fee at least makes the BBC independent from advertisers. We have a typical consoomer bugman here!

I don't get how some people can binge watch a full series in one night. Don't they do anything else in their lives? I can't even sit through a two hour Hollywood movie these days before wanting to go and do something else.

​@@bigbabatunde1218You say that like it's weird to do it.

@@Diogo85 It is. Three one hour episodes of anything back to back is more than enough of anything for anyone in one sitting. Anything more afterwards smacks of O C D .

@@bigbabatunde1218 It isn't IMO.

"I still think there's a market for traditional antenna (or, I guess Freeview in the UK's case), but like cable and satellite before it, the big money will go to streaming." In the UK, Sky has ran Now TV for years (which is basically Sky over IPTV instead of satellite) and they've released Sky Glass (Sky's own TV which again provides TV over IPTV rather than satellite) so our biggest provider of satellite TV seems to be migrating to IPTV and Freesat will liekly be going with it. Same goes for Freeview. The government is hiving off more and more of the UHF TV band that was used for analogue TV and is now being used for Freeview for mobile phones, there are already channels that need a "connected TV" in order to watch them and Freeview and Freesat have also merged into one company. Traditional TV will be entirely over the internet on the same platform as streaming services, I'm just hoping we get one app for all free to air (or free to stream) channels, with the TV Licence being replaced by a levy on internet charges, per connection rather than per household but cheaper per connection than the TV licence.

​@@GeoNeilUKFreeview will eventually in all probability be reduced to just the mainstream news channels, QVC sales channels, American tat channels like the Food Channel, Quest and Blaze and maybe Drama for the oldies that are still left. Everything else is pretty much gone as it is. E4 will eventually shut up shop as they realise that it isn't a 'yoof' channel anymore just as they closed 4 Music and Viva years ago. Forces TV was a fantastic channel until they closed last summer because of the frequency sell off. That's TV seems to be powering on in the meantime but will probably be bought over or edged out also given enough time.

@@bigbabatunde1218 "Freeview will eventually in all probability be reduced to just the mainstream news channels, QVC sales channels, American tat channels like the Food Channel, Quest and Blaze and maybe Drama for the oldies that are still left." All of which can be delivered via IPTV. Freeview and Freesat are already under the auspices of one company, Everyone TV which will very likely reveal itself as the streaming app that replaces both services and would really be nothing more than TV moving from terrstrial and satellite to IPTV. The channels that require a "connected" television are already provided through IPTV (and diappointingly don't work on my equally connected BT TV box) "Everything else is pretty much gone as it is. E4 will eventually shut up shop as they realise that it isn't a 'yoof' channel anymore just as they closed 4 Music and Viva years ago." Last I checked 4Music is still going via IPTV. "Forces TV was a fantastic channel until they closed last summer because of the frequency sell off." Forces TV closed because it basically was That's TV with the Forces News. "That's TV seems to be powering on in the meantime but will probably be bought over or edged out also given enough time." That's TV will carry on as long as it has an audience (or as long as companies are prepared to advertise on it) if it was going to be bought out, it would have happened by now.

@@weird-guy That's the fear. Another decade of that and free to air broadcasting will be gone as the governments will just say that if you want TV you can go online, then we'll be expected to pay a various amount of subscription services, premium services to circumnavigate ads and be ripped off by service providers each month just to view programming that was previously free.

Linear tv is just not going to survive i think. But streaming as it exists today is also impossible to stay as it is now. What it most likely will turn into is something like the model music streaming have adopted. A third party service provider where these production companies licence their content to. So that everything can come back to a single service again instead of this segmented idea where everybody does their own service. A bit like what netflix started out as. Bbc and the likes can offer their productions on these third party services as well.

I thought it had more to do with the fact that they started charging pensioners for the TV licence and since many pensioners cannot afford the TV licence It has literally been easier for them to become technologically savvy and just use sites like RU-vid or the on demand services or maybe pay a lower amount for a Netflix or Now TV or Amazon Prime subscription than it has been to find the money to pay for the TV licence. The BBC literally priced out their main viewers and screwed over every other channel that relies on views and advertisements as a result.

@@pinkdiamond1847 "I thought it had more to do with the fact that they started charging pensioners for the TV licence and since many pensioners cannot afford the TV licence It has literally been easier for them to become technologically savvy and just use sites like RU-vid or the on demand services or maybe pay a lower amount for a Netflix or Now TV or Amazon Prime subscription than it has been to find the money to pay for the TV licence." If they can't afford a TV Licence, where are they going to find the money for Netflix, Now TV or Amazon Prime? Netflix by itself is _more_ expensive than a TV Licence. Also, you still need a TV Licence to use Now TV, it's just Sky Glass without the contract, which in turn is Sky TV over a broadband line instead of a satellite dish. See also BBC iPlayer, ITVX, 4oD and My5 or any service that provides access to live linear TV, it probably even includes services like Pluto TV (in fact, seeing as Pluto TV is owned by the parent company of Channel 5 and includes channels from Channel 5, it _will_ include Pluto TV) "The BBC literally priced out their main viewers and screwed over every other channel that relies on views and advertisements as a result." The BBC didn't do that, the government did.

All TV full of those ads its all the Music Channels play. Weird seeing places like now 80/90s and Club Land TV you know thats most 2000's suff just playing those kind of stuff all the time.

@@Acidonia150reborn "All TV full of those ads its all the Music Channels play. Weird seeing places like now 80/90s and Club Land TV you know thats most 2000's suff just playing those kind of stuff all the time." Strangely enough, Talking Pictures TV, who play old British TV shows and films from the 30s up to the 70s, tend to avoid those ads.

There's still more quality than quantity in the modern age.

Which means many will forget those channels even exist and go find something else to do instead

I disagree.

Not gonna happen with disney there stoping making dvd and blu rays soon altogether.

Reality shows are not the only shows on TV.

@@Diogo85 well its not just reality shows as my comment means .

@@stonecoldmark316 There are still good programmes on TV.

That's because cable TV isn't as common in Bongistan. In Burgerstan young people are so used to having cable TV that they think antennas are an amazing free TV channel life hack. In Europe in general, pay TV is much cheaper and the free channels actually have plenty of content worth watching. In some places, multiple streaming services end up costing as much as the whole internet plan. It's better to just have the usual IPTV, terrestrial TV and free satellite TV, alongside the internet connection.

Thank you so much! I trained as an actor, but also had a fascination and appreciation for journalism and broadcasters!

@@AdamMartyn you are very good at the videos. I'm a bit obsessed with the mechanics of television (not literally the inside of a telly, you know what I mean) thanks for the reply. 👍🙂

Totally agree. Just to prove it, I’m watching this video on AMTV as it’s more interesting than what’s on TV at this moment in time.

Until they start doing something that the company running the platform doesn't like.

That is a lie, sir. Social media didn't democratize television. TELEVISION democratized television

No.

I still watch live tv because I like it and have grown up watching TV and would hate to see it go. I'll be honest I very rarely watch the main ITV channel because there is nothing worth watching on that channel I don't watch Emmerdale or Corrie. Other shows have no appeal to me like long lost families, cooking with the stars. Whenever I look at the TV guide for ITV I do so with a sinking heart and think if it hadn't been for Emmerdale, Corrie, Ant and Dec and Simon Cowell I think the ITV channel may well be have been shut down maybe 10 or so years ago. The ITVX app is a little better only just they have movies, TV shows, documentaries. Some shows I've never heard of some old shows on the app. If ITV had put as much effort into making their flagship channel as interesting and watchable as their app then maybe they'll get more viewers. The only ITV channel I watch is ITV2 only for Family Guy and American Dad and occasionally Plebs when it's on. I'll be surprised if the main ITV channel survives to the end of the 2030's the way things are going I doubt it. As I said in my previous comment they need to modernise get rid of the those who have run out of fresh ideas and bring in more people who understand TV what audiences want to watch and make better TV shows. Maybe they should look at how US tv is run. It's about ratings every year. They look at their tv shows see which ones are doing well in the ratings and chop the ones that are failing and make fresh new tv shows then every year around September/October they test their new shows with the audiences and if shows don't get enough ratings then they are pulled from the schedule and replaced. Maybe the channels in the UK should adopt that business model it seems to work in the US it may work in the UK.

BBC is slightly better I watch tv shows on BBC One I watch maybe an hour to and a half of BBC each day so yeah, I watch more BBC shows because they make some really good tv shows. But, after about 8pm which is prime time tv watching for most households I switch channels and watch something on Sky. I do think the BBC needs to bring in fresh new talent and get rid of those who have run out of ideas behind the scenes. The BBC used to have some great comedy shows on like Blackadder, Men Behaving Badly etc. Now I feel their comedy is boring I never saw the appeal of Ghosts I couldn't see what was so amusing about a bunch of Ghosts. I thought Black Ops was fairly decent. Some of the drama on the BBC can be slow and boring. A few years ago they had some fantastic drama on BBC One like Line of Duty, Killing Eve, The Girl Before, and a few others. Dramas on the BBC used to be for me anyway slow and boring but lately they have really caught my attention and I stuck with a few really good drama series. I think the BBC needs to bring live audiences back to their comedy shows I kind of miss that. I do think the BBC needs to do better with their tv shows and channels and like ITV get rid of those who have run out of fresh ideas and bring in fresh new talent with fresh ideas who understand what audiences want to watch on the BBC, have mass market appeal not just to certain audiences but to all audiences. Skytv mostly has American tv shows some I really enjoy some has no appeal to me. They have started making tv shows based in the UK shows like Code 404, Bloods, Brassic and a few others shame Idris Elba is no longer making his comedy series In the long Run I really liked that tv show it appealed to my sense of humour.

I watch Sky as well & the main show I'm watching right now's In The Long Run (atm, I'm watching a few shows at a given time). I don't like it as much as you do, but I think it's good. If you haven't watched Barry yet, give it a go. I've been watching quite a lot of comedy shows on Sky over the past 18 months, so if you'd like, I can give you a list of my recommendations, though I still have a lot left to watch. As for FTA channels, I watch some stuff, but I'll be watching more in the future. I'm prioritising Sky right now, since I'm not sure I'll have it in 5 years time.

@@nathanpollard1223 Hi, never heard of Barry can you tell me what it's about. As I said I really liked In the Long Run I just thought it was hilarious I really liked Valentine the uncle coming to stay and he tries all these get rich quick schemes which never worked just had me laughing so much he was my favourite character. I think recently Sky has started making their own TV shows though still prioritising imported American tv shows some I really enjoy and some I don't. I would love it if they had a tv channel where they had a some tv shows imported from Europe especially Poland. Some Polish tv shows ones I've watched on the Internet have been excellent there have a few shows I followed and really liked 8 thought the acting was fantastic the production of the shows were first rate. I would love to see more Polish tv shows either on Channel 4 or on Skytv.

@@weird-guy I saw that as well which to be honest surprised me because when us broadcasters buy the rights to comedy tv shows made in the uk and remake for American audiences from what I've read those shows never really made a connection with US audiences. I am I admit glad that US audiences managed to watch a comedy tv show like Ghosts and make it popular. I doubt it will go beyond the 4th or 5th season depending on what season they are on now.

Try That's TV from around 8 or 9 o'clock at night onwards for older comedies. Modern comedies are littered around all over the place to everyone's annoyance, so I don't know how you could have missed them.

Cinema should not go. I don't want to have to pay for multiple streaming services just to watch what I want when I can go to the cinema.

Ah, I see, you're a weeb. Weeb stuff never really aired on Bongistani TV. Calling TV dead in the 2000s because of no weeb stuff on it is just stupid. Fortunately for you, Italy stills airs anime on broadcast TV. While not nearly as much as it did in the 80s and 90s, it's still quite a few of them.

That's your opinion, others can have theirs.

@@Diogo85 others as in middle aged adults who have the worst taste due to lack of variety all they had was what they got and what they got was absolute dumpster fire trash. It’s not their fault they are slow but it is their fault for not recognizing why they are slow. Gen Z really been guiding the elderly through this age since we picked up on computers in 3rd grade. Basically from the age of 9-10 on we’ve shown our grandparents and parents how to use any new technology. Yw

That could be because the coverage is also higher, so an indoor or balcony antenna will suffice.

@@fungo6631 there's A socket in the rooms. they simply don't put up an Arial unless you pay

@@mr.y.mysterious.video1 At least you can put one yourself that will probably be even better. But today ppl are too soyfaced and sissy to be bothered to do it themselves.

Italy also has 4K over DTT in some areas and has 4K over satellite as well. Even my Slavistani country abandoned SD on terrestrial national channels, switching to 1080p50.

Piracy is always free though and with all the payrolling that's going on it's becoming more popular and easier than ever. It almost died but the streaming services and TV channels had to get greedy. Of course I'm not promoting piracy I could never if my MI5/FBI agent is reading this, I will never ever do such a thing 😇

Challenge used to be a great channel. All they show is repeats of those programmes you have mentioned. Where’s Takeshis Castle, The Crystal Maze etc. it’s not the same channel. Surely only a matter of time before it disappears.

​@@L1RWthey've been changing their shows recently in fact this past week they introduced sign2win as a new show but it's a little too late

This is going to be the case everywhere. Traditional TV will have nothing to offer other than live news and current affairs, and then live sport. Even so, everything you find on free-to-air TV either is available on pay TV and streaming services (and to varying degrees of service), or comes from pay TV and (I suspect) is no longer viable to remain on pay TV because of either fewer subscribers to the whole range of channels on pay TV (like Sky or Foxtel) or because (once again) even satellite and cable pay TV is giving way to streaming services (and Foxtel in Australia has begun capitalising on certain aspects of this with Binge for regular genres of TV and Kayo for sports). Take Australia for instance. We have TVSN. We have NITV. We have NICKELODEON (on free-to-air as of this Tuesday just gone). All three came from pay TV (most likely origin, I assume, is Foxtel). All three are now available free-to-air, by name and by content. That's starting to seem a bit cool and grand to my mind. I have this idea in my head that free-to-air may look like Foxtel or Sky, meaning most (if not all) of the channels that have ever been available on Foxtel may end up being broadcast terrestrially. However, I am going to burst this bubble and suggest that the terrestrial venture is going to have to wrap up at some point, and it will not be feasible to continue on with terrestrial broadcasting, and everything will move onto streaming. It's almost as if there was no point to getting rid of the analog signal anyways because the digital(-only) era is not going to last even half as long as the analog(-only) era did. What's almost certainly accelerating the move to streaming media is the amount of trashy TV available on free-to-air. No one really wants to watch a bunch of tossers on an island pretending they're into one another for anything deeper than the skin (and possibly genetalia). No one really wants to watch made-up drama for the sake of drama between two random unknowns from off the street. And everything else is just nowhere near as interesting to watch as anything in RU-vid or Netflix or any other of these streaming platforms. To make matters even more frustrating, I find that on the streaming platforms for two of the commercial networks in Australia, there are channels available to watch live and free which I thought would never happen (that is, they're exclusively available on the streaming platforms). One surprise of mine was that Bloomberg Television is available through 7plus, while MTV's reality line-up is available through 10play. I'm not going to read any deeper into the wherefores of the arrangement; suffice to say, it is miraculous to a grand degree that the streaming services of two commercial free-to-air networks are streaming this content online and so openly (once one reconciles with the fact that one needs to log into the system, which means creating a profile for each of the streaming services). In essence, everything is going onto the internet, and everything is going to be available only on the internet. If traditional TV has any chance of surviving in any capacity, the networks need to re-evaluate the approach to terrestrial television broadcasting and essentially overhaul EVERYTHING. They'll need to conjure up substantial reasons for keeping traditional TV available and afloat. Beyond news and current affairs, there's very little that could be still produced for terrestrial television that people of the near future would want to watch. And just about anything that anyone could ever want to watch, whether live or not, is on the internet. In ten years' time, over 75-80% of people with a TV will be (almost, if not totally) exclusively watching content on the internet. The end.

It’s not fake. The data is from Ofcom.

Or possibly misinterpretation.

@@adultmoshifan87There’s nothing to “misinterpret”. This isn’t complicated data. Traditional TV numbers are continuing to decline, streaming numbers are continuing to grow. Yes, the title is a little sensationalist (not attacking though because I know that eye catching titles are needed) but it’s rather obvious that traditional TV is in its twilight years.