The Future of TV
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Young people may be turning their backs on the traditional TV set, but is it stimulating a golden age of drama?
Netflix, YouTube and Amazon are better at grabbing our attention via our phones and computers than the screen sitting in the corner of our living rooms. Manuela Saragosa asks how this is transforming the creativity of TV-making, whether it is leading to unhealthy binge-viewing, and if it will kill off the job of the TV channel scheduler.
Programme features Christoph Klimmer of TV streaming service Xstream, and Amanda Lotz of the University of Michigan. Produced by Laurence Knight.
(Picture: Abandoned TV; Credit: tacojim/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to business daily from the BBC. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Manuel Sara Rosa. |
| 0:22.0 | Coming up, TV, does it have a future? It's just that there are so many websites and devices competing for our eyes. |
| 0:30.4 | There's almost no barrier to access video content anymore on any device everywhere under each circumstance. |
| 0:36.0 | It is competing for your attention at the same time that you may have social media, |
| 0:41.9 | you may have work demands, and of course, sleep. |
| 0:44.2 | But are we falling out of love with TV or just the TV set? |
| 0:48.5 | That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 1:06.7 | Listen, listen really carefully. |
| 1:08.7 | It's quiet, isn't it? |
| 1:09.8 | We're at home. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm in the kitchen dining area. |
| 1:15.5 | My 13-year-old son is near me. |
| 1:16.6 | He's playing on the computer. |
| 1:17.9 | What are you playing? |
| 1:18.9 | Fortnite. |
| 1:21.1 | You're not playing Fortnite. |
| 1:22.1 | What are you? |
| 1:22.7 | You're coding. |
| 1:24.0 | I am playing Fortnite, actually. |
| 1:26.1 | He wants to say that he's playing Fortnite. |
| 1:27.6 | He's not actually playing Fortnite because I don't let him play Fortnite. Okay, he wants to say that he's playing Fortnite. He's not actually playing Fortnite because I don't let him play Fortnite. But anyway, we're going to go upstairs and we're |
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