17/10/2018
It was Viacom founder Sumner Redstone who coined the phrase “content is king”. The company’s President and CEO, Bob Bakish, is also associated with a term that defines a media era: he dubbed the streamers, such as Amazon and Netflix, “frenemies”. He used the description recently to explain the fact that, although big producers and channel owners...
In Depth
17/10/2018
Fings ain’t wot they used to be for the traditional television industry. Netflix and Amazon are already affecting viewing levels, with Apple and Google set to join Facebook at the feast. Will it be fangs for the memory for telly?
Faangs, an acronym for the US tech and media giants Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google, offer TV the modern...
In Depth
17/10/2018
Having inadvertently found myself in the headlines twice in the past month, I’ve given up trying to understand what makes today’s news media pay attention.
Returning from the summer break, I pitched up at the Big Tent Ideas Festival, held in a field near Cambridge, to debate the future of AI and machine learning. To my nerdy mind, fears of massive...
In Brief
26/09/2018
The rise in technology, diversity and online regulation were discussed by experts in television in front an audience of industry professionals.
BBC's Tony Hall, Ofcom's Sharon White and Secretary of State for DCMS The RT Hon Jeremy Wright MP delivered speeches at the conference, and ITV's Chief Executive Carolyn McCall spoke for the first time...
25/09/2018
We all know the market is changing shape. But what of the shows within it? What does it mean to commission linear television in an increasingly SVOD world?
Meanwhile, what are the new entrants really looking for? And are these platform distinctions as cut and dried as they seem?
Amazon’s Georgia Brown, Channel 4’s Ian Katz and Sky’s Zai Bennett...