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Tom said “ITV faces the same changing environment as all broadcasters - the younger audience moving online and streamers gaining ground. There’s an untapped non-white audience for commercial TV who aren’t on board with streamers, so it’s an easy way to stem the decline. Overall, ITV is hitting its diversity targets – but it’s expensive to see how the audience responds to diversity in drama. Moving an already popular presenter like Alison Hammond into daytime is an easier and cheaper way to diversify onscreen talent.”

Jamie said “The crossover point where total digital revenues eclipse physical production is now just a matter of time."

He added “Domestic labels are likely to make more of their catalogues available to stream closer to physical release, which will accelerate the digital transition in the coming years."

Jamie said streaming services, which had accounted for less than 10 percent of sales in Japan until a few years ago, grew to 15 percent last year and will likely exceed 20 percent this year. "The crossover point where total digital revenues eclipse physical production is now just a matter of time."

Francois said “The Mediapro story tells us that leagues . . . have been greedy, and far too short term."

Francois said “We have reached the peak of sports rights." 

He added “All the leagues have been greedy. But the French league has been a bit more greedy, and a lot less lucky.”

Douglas said "Yes, as far as it goes. The US election was a close race with a record turnout, revealing a deeply divided country, and social media and search likely had a relatively limited impact on the outcome. The biggest positive for US media will be a president who respects them and takes difficult questions from all sides. But this will not stop media digging in and accentuating social and political divides. Nor will it incentivise media to investigate and analyse (not explain away) different perspectives."