Like their cable predecessors, streaming companies have lured customers in with low rates and promises of a better viewing experience. Now they’re cashing in.
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It was the greatest advertisement for cricket, but now the game needs to be promoted to everyone, not hidden on pay-TV.
The lesson from other sports is clear: women’s football must be broadcast on free-to-air if it isn’t to disappear.
The proposed anti-siphoning changes certainly shift the economic balance from free-to-air to pay-TV, as well as from government intervention in the sport TV market to more open market play.
It is gambling, especially online and mobile, that has come into focus as sport’s most potentially damaging byproduct.
With Quickflix saved but Presto on the way out, it’s hard to predict who will emerge as the winners as battle for video-on-demand viewers intensifies.
The Seven Network’s decision to offer an additional subscription service for its coverage of the Rio Olympics makes it the first free-to-air broadcaster in Australia to charge for broadcasting sport.
A move by the US to open up more competition in pay-TV has sparked a debate about TV viewing data.
The unbundling of content stands to hurt Pay TV providers the most.
Netflix is winning over Australian audiences en masse, but it’s too early to tell who will win the race for TV viewers.
With free-to-air, pay TV, catch-up services and video-on-demand, television is changing in Australia, and the viewership metrics are struggling to keep up.
With the arrival of Netflix and competition from two other new video-on-demand services, television will never be the same in Australia.
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